Biden responds to Trump: 'No one is going to take our democracy away from us'
Minutes after President Trump held a press conference at the White House to make baseless claims about the election being stolen from him, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tweeted that "no one is going to take our democracy away from us. Not now, not ever."
The United States, he continued, "has come too far, fought too many battles, and endured too much to let this happen."
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