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Posted: 2020-11-20T18:21:08Z | Updated: 2020-11-20T18:21:08Z

Its been nearly two weeks since every major news outlet called the presidential race for Democratic nominee Joe Biden. But for pro-Trump media, the election never ended.

The election map this week on One America News shows President Donald Trump with 232 electoral votes to Bidens 227, with the states of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada all still up for grabs. Fridays front page of The Epoch Times is the same: a United States dotted with gray undecided states, indicating that Trump has not yet lost.

An array of far-right and conspiratorial media outlets are still promoting the fantasy that Trump will have a second term spinning debunked falsehoods about voter fraud and praising the Trump campaigns ramshackle legal attempts to invalidate votes as a pretext to claim that Bidens win was either illegitimate or simply never happened. Like the president himself, theyre not willing to accept that Biden won the national popular vote by around 6 million votes and is slated to receive 306 Electoral College votes, putting him well over the 270 needed for the presidency.

The election is over. But these outlets are helping Trump spin the narrative that it isnt.