Trump’s reported insistence he would stay in White House

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Trump’s reported insistence he would stay in White House affirms the reality of the danger of trying to overturn its results. “I’m just not going to leave,” Trump reportedly told an aide. “We’re never leaving. How can you leave when you won an election?” When you hear something like that, I think you have to recognize that we were in no man’s land and territory we’d never been in before as a nation. If you have a president who’s refusing to leave the White House, or who’s saying he refuses to leave the White House, then anyone who sort of stands aside and says someone else will handle it is themselves putting the nation at risk, because it’s clear that, when you’re at a moment that we faced, everyone’s got to stand up and take responsibility, to make sure our Republic stands,