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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Wednes­day assert­ed he won the 2020 elec­tion and said America’s elec­tion sys­tem is under siege.

Trump, speak­ing in a video from the White House that he released on social media, said his job as pres­i­dent is to defend the laws and Con­sti­tu­tion of the Unit­ed States and that he’s deter­mined to pro­tect the elec­tion sys­tem, which he said is “under coor­di­nat­ed assault and siege.”

Trump accused Democ­rats of imple­ment­ing a mass mail-in bal­lot­ing scheme in order to steal the elec­tion and out­lined aspects of the Nov. 3 elec­tion that he sees as sus­pi­cious or fraudulent.

Using the pan­dem­ic as a pre­text, he said, Demo­c­ra­t­ic offi­cials and judges dras­ti­cal­ly changed elec­tion pro­ce­dures in the months and weeks lead­ing up to the elec­tion in appar­ent vio­la­tion of the Constitution.