“Why the hell would I do that?” he said. “I’m already famous. Do you really think I wanted to be famous like this?”

He alluded to a buggy teleprompter, but took responsibility.

“Did I make a mistake? Yes I did. I’m not in the finger pointing business and rolling other people under the bus."

Harvey stressed that he did not miss any rehearsals: “I went to more rehearsals than I’ve ever gone to for anything. I did the whole table read. I was there for the entire dress rehearsal.”

He described the moments right after he announced the wrong winner as chaotic.

“All I hear is confusion backstage,” he said. “I’m standing there in the wing. I got a guy in my ear going, we gotta do something. I had to walk out there and do what I thought was the right thing.”

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (center) is flanked by GOP whip Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (left) and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as Thune speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Earlier Tuesday, the Senate passed the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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