President Trump on Wednesday said he will “never give up” and “never concede” in the 2020 presidential election, vowing to “stop the steal” and renewing pressure on Vice President Pence to “do the right thing” and decertify the results of the election. . . .

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“We do not want to see our election victory stolen by radical left Democrats, that’s what they’re doing, and stolen by the fake news media, that’s what they’ve done and what they’re doing,” Trump said Wednesday.

“We will never give up and never concede,” Trump said. “We will stop the steal.”

“If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election,” Trump said. “All he has to do, this is from the No. 1, or certainly, one of the top constitutional lawyers in our country, he has the absolute right to do it,” Trump said. . . .

“We are supposed to protect our country and support our Constitution,” Trump said. “States want to revote. The states got defrauded, they were given false information and now they want it back.” . . .

“And then we’re stuck with a president who lost the election by a lot, and we have to live with that for the next four years,” Trump said, referring to his Democratic rival Joe Biden. “We’re not going to let that happen.”

The president, in recent hours, has increasingly put pressure on Pence to intervene during the joint session, tweeting early Wednesday: “Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!” . . .

The president has insisted that “states want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud,” adding that the “corrupt process never received legislative approval.” . . .

“Many states want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be.)

The president has said that he and Pence “are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act,” and has claimed that the election “was illegal.”

Trump went on to say that Pence has “several options under the U.S. Constitution.”

“He can decertify the results or send them back to the states for change and certification,” Trump said. “He can also decertify the illegal and corrupt results and send them to the House of Representatives for the one vote-for-one state tabulation.” . . .

The president’s remarks also come just hours after the Georgia Senate runoffs, where Democrats are projected to pick up one — and possibly two — seats, which would hand them the majority in the U.S. Senate. . . .

“After this, we’re going to walk down — I’ll be with you — we’re going to walk down to the Capitol and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness,” Trump said. “You have to show strength and you have to be strong.  The president told his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” . . .

Over the weekend, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, assembled a group of 11 Republican senators — Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin; James Lankford of Oklahoma; Steve Daines of Montana; John Kennedy of Louisiana; Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Mike Braun of Indiana; as well as Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming; Roger Marshall of Kansas; Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama — announcing that they would object to the certification of the Electoral College results unless there was an emergency, 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission.

And last month, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., was the first to say he would vote to object to the certification — specifically for Pennsylvania.

And Fox News first reported that now-former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., would object to the certification of results from Georgia’s presidential race.

(Excerpt from Fox News. Article by Brooke Singman. Photo Credit: The White House Flickr.)

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