10 things you need to know today: November 16, 2020

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1. Trump says Biden 'won' but insists election was 'rigged'

President Trump on Sunday tweeted that President-elect Joe Biden "won because the Election was Rigged," Trump's first acknowledgement that he lost the Nov. 3 election. An hour later, Trump walked back the comment in another tweet. "RIGGED ELECTION. WE WILL WIN!" the president wrote. "He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION!" The nation's news outlets have projected Biden the winner with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden won the popular vote by more than five million. Numerous Republicans and former Trump administration officials have called on Trump to drop his unfounded allegations that Democrats stole the election through voter fraud.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.