It’s tough to lose. One of the most important things I teach as a youth sports coach is good sportsmanship. One of the most difficult things for kids to do is to lose with grace without making excuses and to treat their opponent with respect. When kids have a hard time accepting defeat with grace it is incumbent on the coach to help teach the importance of good sportsmanship.

President Biden is doing his best to be that coach today and it’s not just because he was on the winning team. Al Gore and many others have stepped down gracefully in the past when they have lost in very tightly contested elections because they understood that, luckily, 1. the US is still a country that works very hard to hold fair elections and 2. good sportsmanship and respect for the very delicate experiment of democracy trumps everything else.

Biden came down hard on former President Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election during his speech on voting rights in Philadelphia today. “The Big Lie is just that: A big lie," Biden said.

"The 2020 election was the most scrutinized election ever in American history. Challenge after challenge brought to local, state and election officials, state legislatures, state and federal courts, even to the United States Supreme Court not once, but twice. More than 80 judges, including those appointed by my predecessor, heard the arguments. In every case neither cause nor evidence was found to undermine the national achievement of administering the historic election in the face of such extraordinary challenges," Biden said.

In 2020 more people voted in America than ever in the history of US elections and did so in the middle of a once in a century pandemic.

Why do you feel so many more people are buying into “The Big Lie”? I am truly curious. Are they just upset lost and are poor sports? Do they feel the “powers that be” rigged the election?

This is a very real and exploding problem and deserves a healthy, respectful dialogue.