President Donald Trump & Vice President Mike Pence gave speeches on the night of the 2020 presidential election. Trump talked about his leads in key states and said, “frankly, we did win this election,” appearing to claim victory before many states finished counting votes. He also mentioned “going to the U.S. Supreme Court” over the election. Read the full transcript of the speeches here.

Donald Trump gave remarks from the White House on November 5 to address the ongoing election counts. He made claims about election fraud, saying “If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.” Read the transcript here.

President Donald Trump spoke at a rally near the White House on Jan. 6 before a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Trump was impeached Wednesday by the U.S. House on a single charge of “incitement of insurrection.”

John C. Calhoun's 1837 speech to the United States Senate

A political treatise written by US Senator John C. Calhoun, published posthumously in 1851.

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