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    Trump Tried To Make This Election 2016 Again. It Didn't Go As Planned

    President Trump slumped in polls and fundraising — and lost 10 days when he caught the coronavirus. He threw everything into reaching for a come-from-behind win, but Democrat Joe Biden beat him.
    by Franco Ordoñez Nov 08, 2020 7 minutes
    Air Force One lands at Phoenix Goodyear Airport for a campaign rally less than a week before Election Day.

    In the hours before President Trump began to realize that he may not get to "Make America Great Again, Again," the former reality television star who stunned the world in 2016 with his improbable leap to the White House allowed for a moment of candor.

    "You know, winning is easy. Losing is never easy. Not for me, it's not," Trump told reporters on Election Day, his voice hoarse from an unforgiving three-week marathon of rallies.

    Now, the world is seeing just how difficult it is for a man who built his brand on winning to lose. Trump has so far rejected the idea of conceding defeat to his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, who on Saturday became president-elect, having secured enough votes to win the Electoral College.

    It's a drawn-out and potentially ignominious end to a campaign modeled closely on Trump's 2016 win — a flurry of what so far seem like to voting procedures in several states. "He's absolutely going to fight like a wild animal to the very end," his former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Fox Business. But some advisers are trying to help him find a way

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