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HILLARY CLINTON:

Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country.

MITT ROMNEY:

I have just called President Obama to congratulate him on his victory.

JOHN McCAIN:

I had the honor of calling Sen. Barack Obama to congratulate him. [Booing]

JOHN McCAIN:

Please.

JOHN KERRY:

I spoke to President Bush and I offered him and Laura our congratulations on their victory.

AL GORE:

Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has spoken. While I strongly disagree with the court’s decision, I accept it.

BOB DOLE:

The president is my opponent, not my enemy. And I wish him well and I pledge my support.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH:

And America must always come first, so we will get behind this new president and wish him well.

MICHAEL DUKAKIS:

This nation faces major challenges ahead, and we must work together.

WALTER MONDALE:

He has won. We are all Americans. He is our president.

JIMMY CARTER:

—in bringing about an orderly transition of government in the weeks ahead.

BETTY FORD:

I congratulate you on your victory.

GEORGE McGOVERN:

Congratulations on your victory.

HUBERT HUMPHREY:

We’ve got a president-elect. He’s going to have my help. Cheers.

BARRY GOLDWATER:

I have no bitterness. No rancor at all.

RICHARD NIXON:

He will have my whole-hearted support.

ADLAI STEVENSON:

The people have rendered their verdict, and I gladly accept it.

THOMAS DEWEY:

I urge all Americans to unite behind you. And every good American will wholeheartedly accept the will of the people.

WENDELL WILLKIE:

I accept the result of the election with complete goodwill.

DONALD TRUMP:

This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election.

NARRATOR:

It was the lie that sparked an insurrection, an existential threat to American democracy created by decisions made over years. Partisan warfare. Moral compromise.

WHITE SUPREMACIST PROTESTERS:

[Chanting] White lives matter! White lives matter! White lives matter! White lives matter!

NARRATOR:

Warnings ignored.

DONALD TRUMP:

I alone can fix it.

DEMOCRACY IS FOR LOSERS

MALE VOICE:

Get the host in place, we gotta go. Thirty seconds. OK, quiet in studio.

NARRATOR:

The warnings about the threat to democracy were there from the very beginning.

FEMALE NEWSREADER:

We have some breaking news for you now. Fox News can now project that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has won Iowa.

MALE NEWSREADER:

Ted Cruz wins the Republican contest here in Iowa.

TED CRUZ:

Tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives across Iowa and all across this great nation.

NARRATOR:

Sen. Ted Cruz had defeated Donald Trump in the first contest for the 2016 presidential nomination.

February 1, 2016

4 Years, 11 Months, 5 Days

Until January 6, 2021

MALE NEWSREADER:

Ted Cruz took on Donald Trump toe-to-toe and prevailed.

MALE NEWSREADER:

Clearly a majority of Iowans didn’t want to make a deal with Donald Trump.

MALE NEWSREADER:

It’s going to be very interesting to see how Donald Trump will react to the fact that he’s now been beaten.

MALE NEWSREADER:

The big question now: How is Donald Trump going to handle a loss?

NARRATOR:

Trump’s response, a sign of what was to come.

MALE VOICE [reading Trump tweet]:

Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it.

FEMALE NEWSREADER:

You have tweeted that Sen. Ted Cruz stole the Iowa election.

DONALD TRUMP:

Everything about it was disgraceful. It was a fraud as far as I was concerned.

MALE VOICE [reading Trump tweet]:

The state of Iowa should disqualify Ted Cruz from the most recent election on the basis that he cheated—a total fraud.

TIM ALBERTA, Author, American Carnage:

Knowing what we know now, I think you would go back to Feb. 1 of 2016 as the beginning.

DONALD TRUMP:

It’s a total voter fraud when you think of it. And actually I came in probably first, if you think about it.

TIM ALBERTA:

That episode was a bright red blinking light foreshadowing everything that was to come and just what a danger to democracy that this man posed.

PETER BAKER, Co-author, The Divider:

This is a pattern for Trump. He has done this every step of the way through his career, long before politics. When The Apprentice lost an Emmy to The Amazing Race, he claimed that the Emmy contest was rigged.

MALE VOICE [reading Trump tweet]:

Amazing Race winning an Emmy again is a total joke. The Emmys have no credibility.

The Emmys are all politics, that’s why The Apprentice never won.

DONALD TRUMP:

The public is smart. They know it’s a con game.

MITT ROMNEY:

I have just called President Obama to congratulate him on his victory.

PETER BAKER:

He claimed that the election was rigged in 2012 when Mitt Romney, whom he had endorsed, lost to Barack Obama.

MALE VOICE [reading Trump tweet]:

This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy.

More reports of voting machines switching Romney votes to Obama.

Let’s fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice!

We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington.

PETER BAKER:

Every step along the way anything he has ever lost is because somebody else has cheated and stolen it from him.

NARRATOR:

For those watching closely, it was a signal of trouble ahead.