Former President Trump declined to commit to accepting the results of November’s Wisconsin election in an interview Wednesday, the latest example of Trump hedging whether to contest the results. be.
Trump: “If everything is honest, I’ll be happy to accept the outcome.” He told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In an interview on Wednesday. “If not, we must fight for the rights of our country.
“But if everything is honest, and we expect it to be, a lot has changed in the last few years, but if everything is honest, I’m absolutely willing to accept the outcome. ” he added.
Trump falsely claimed to the same outlet that he “won the 2020 election in Wisconsin,” further amplifying his untrue claims of widespread fraud in the Badger State and elsewhere. President Biden won Wisconsin by 21,000 votes in 2020.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has repeatedly refused to promise to accept election results dating back to the 2020 campaign. After losing to Biden, Trump repeatedly claimed widespread fraud, but those claims have been rejected in numerous courts. Then, on January 6, 2021, rioters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of Biden’s victory.
Despite the violence that followed the 2020 election, President Trump is unsure whether to accept the 2024 results.
At a CNN town hall in 2023, President Trump was asked about accepting the 2024 results, saying, “If I believe it was an honest election, I would be honored.”
In an interview with Time magazine published this week, President Trump did not rule out the possibility of political violence after the November election if he did not win, saying it “depends” on the fairness of the vote. Ta.
“I think we’re going to win,” President Trump said. “And if they don’t win, it depends on the circumstances. It always comes down to the fairness of the election. I don’t think they can do what they did last time. I don’t think they can get away with it. If we do, we will win in record-setting fashion.”
President Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) are committed to election integrity efforts for the 2024 election, including programs to train poll watchers and provide lawyers to respond to potential claims of fraud. We are making a large investment.
The former president told supporters in Michigan on Wednesday that he needed a landslide victory in November so the election was “too big to be rigged.”
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