What other phrases did Trump use about the election in his January 6 2021 speech?

1. The core claims: “stolen,” “rigged,” “fraudulent,” “we had an election that was stolen”

Throughout the address Trump repeatedly insisted the 2020 contest was illegitimate, using plain declarative language—calling it "stolen," "fraudulent," and "rigged"—a thread picked up in contemporaneous transcripts and his later video telling supporters "we had an election that was stolen from us" ^{[2] [3] [1]}. These assertions are cited in multiple reports as the speech’s fundamental assertion and are also identified by the Miller Center transcript and journalistic summaries as repeated false claims that inflamed the crowd ^{[2] [1]}.

2. Calls aimed at officials: “send it back” and “I would like Mike Pence to send it back”

Trump explicitly urged Vice President Pence to intervene in the certification process, telling the crowd Pence should "send it back" to the states—language documented in reporting of his tweets and rally remarks and amplified in coverage of his calls and texts that day ^[3]. That instruction appears alongside criticism of the media and demands that elected Republicans block certification, establishing the speech’s political target as much as its rhetorical one ^{[1] [3]}.

3. Mobilizing phrases: “If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country” and “we’re going to walk down … to the Capitol”

At key moments Trump shifted from accusation to mobilization, declaring "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore" and telling the crowd "we are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue … and we are going to the Capitol," language that reporters transcribed and that the National Security Archive highlighted as directing the audience toward the seat of certification ^{[1] [4]}. News outlets documented that he paired reassurance—"I know your pain"—with these calls to action, linking grievance to movement ^{[2] [4]}.

4. Other short refrains and exhortations: “never concede,” “get smart Republicans,” “sacred landslide”

The speech and associated tweets included terse refrains designed to harden resolve: Trump said he would "never concede" the election and used phrasing such as "get smart Republicans" in his social media posts that morning; later he framed the loss as a “sacred landslide” being "viciously stripped away," language reporters quote as part of his effort to delegitimize the outcome and energize followers ^{[1] [3] [6]}. These phrases appear throughout the contemporary reporting as staples of the day's rhetoric.

5. How analysts interpret those phrases: violent imagery, enabling action, and differing emphases

Scholars and investigative reporting emphasize that the stringing together of falsehoods, moral language, and exhortations produced a rhetorical environment that enabled violence: psychological and peer‑review analyses argue the speech "provides a warrant" for violent action even if it lacks an explicit command to storm the Capitol, while other sources note Trump did not, in their view, utter a direct instruction to use violence ^{[5] [1]}. Reporting from mainstream outlets and official transcripts document both the incendiary phrases and the parts where he told people to be "peaceful," underscoring the contested reading of intent and effect ^{[2] [6] [4]}.

Limitations: reporting here is drawn from the supplied transcripts, news coverage, and academic analysis; full verbatim transcript lines beyond these sources are not newly reproduced and claims are tied to the cited materials ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}.