Almost seventy-five million people voted for our campaign, the most of any incumbent president by far in the history of our country, twelve million more people than four years ago. I was told by the real pollsters—we do have real pollsters. They know that we were going to do well, and we were going to win. What I was told, if I went from sixty-three million, which we had four years ago, to sixty-six million, there was no chance of losing. Well, we didn’t go to sixty-six. We went to seventy-five million, and they say we lost. We didn’t lose.

Ballots everywhere. Every swing state inundated with ballots. Ten thousand here. Sixty thousand there. Four hundred thousand suddenly. Ninety-one thousand. One-hundred-seventy thousand. Everywhere, suddenly, votes for Biden materializing. You could hear now, in Trump’s voice, the mad and madcap Giuliani—so much crammed into his head and his trying to get it out before it destroyed him.

Just like the suppression polls that said we’re going to lose Wisconsin by seventeen points. Well, we won Wisconsin. They don’t have it that way because they lose just by a little sliver. But they had me down the day before in the Washington Post/ABC poll, down seventeen points. I called up a real pollster. I said, “What is that?” “Sir, that’s called a suppression poll. I think you’re going to win Wisconsin, sir.” I said, “But why do they make it four or five points?” “Because then people vote. But when you’re down seventeen, they say, ‘Hey, I’m not going to waste my time. I love the president, but there’s no way.’” Despite that, we won Wisconsin, you’ll see. But that’s called suppression because a lot of people, when they see that, it’s very interesting. This pollster said, “Sir, if you’re down three, four, or five, people vote. When you go down seventeen, they say, ‘Let’s save, let’s go and have dinner, and let’s watch the presidential defeat tonight on television, darling.’”

And, of course, it only got worse.