White House press secretaries: 2016 vs 2020 elections

Two elections, two very different press secretaries.   Here's a look at the White House response to election results in 2016 and 2020.

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00:00This election is not over. Far from it.

00:03We have only begun the process of obtaining an accurate, honest vote count.

00:08Everybody's discouraged when the candidate they're supporting loses an election.

00:15But the genius and brilliance of our democracy

00:20is that when the election's over, we recognize that

00:23we're Americans and patriots before we're Democrats and Republicans.

00:27Our position is clear. We want to protect the franchise of the American people.

00:33We want an honest, accurate, lawful count.

00:36We want maximum sunlight. We want maximum transparency.

00:40The president doesn't get to choose his successor. The American people do.

00:45And his responsibility to the American people

00:49and his responsibility to this democracy supersedes his own personal views.

00:57The integrity of our election matters. The Constitution of the United States matters.

01:03What we have seen across the country is Democrat officials systematically trying to do an

01:08end-run around the Constitution to tip the scales of the election in their favor.

01:13I think the president and the tone and the priorities that he

01:18exhibited in the Rose Garden are indicative of

01:24the approach that the White House staff is taking to ensuring a smooth transition

01:29and working to ensure the success of the president-elect in leading and uniting the country.

01:36No one doubts that conducting a national election amid a pandemic poses serious challenges,

01:43but none of that means individual judges may improvise with their own election rules

01:48in place of those the people's representatives have adopted.

01:53They have taken a global pandemic and turned it into a nationwide electoral epidemic.

01:58The president believes that our democracy benefits from more people being engaged and

02:02more people being involved in the debate, regardless of which candidate they support.

02:06That our democracy is strengthened when more voices and more perspectives and more views

02:12are incorporated into the process of governing this country.

02:16All we are asking for is truth, transparency, and sunlight here. That is all we are asking for.

02:22And sadly, we are asking the questions many of you should.

02:24What's true is that the president-elect has some

02:32difficult questions to answer and some big challenges to tackle.

02:37And it's why it's so important for there to be a smooth and effective, efficient transition

02:44from President Obama's presidency to the Trump presidency.

02:47Because as Americans, we're rooting for the success of our president in leading and uniting

02:54the country.