Chris Stirewalt, former Fox News political editor, bottom right, listens to a video as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol meets to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo
J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo
Chris Stirewalt, former Fox News political editor, bottom right, listens to a video as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol meets to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022.
Video clips from depositions with top Trump campaign staff, including Bill Stepien, Jason Miller and Ivanka Trump, illustrated how many of the former president’s advisers argued against declaring victory on election night.
In a selected video clip, Miller, a senior adviser to the campaign, referenced an inebriated Rudy Giuliani wanting to speak to the president on election night, telling Miller that he wanted Trump to say that “We won. They’re stealing it from us.”
“To the best of my memory, I said that we should not go declare victory until we had a better sense of the numbers,” Miller said.
In a separate video clip, Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager, said “It was far too early to be making any calls like that. Ballots were still being counted. Ballots were still going to be counted for days.”
Stepien added that he recommended the campaign instead say that votes were still being counted and it was too early to call the race.
Another video clip was played of Ivanka Trump stating that she didn’t have a “firm view as to what he should say.”
“The results were still being counted. It was becoming clear that the rates would not be called on election night,” she said.
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