Former president donald trump on Wednesday would not commit to accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election – echoing comments he made during the 2020 election campaign.
“If everything is honest, I will gladly accept the results. I won’t change that,” Trump said Wednesday in a interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the country’s rights.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee also repeated his false claim that he defeated Joe Biden in Wisconsin in the 2020 election.
“If you go back and look at all the things that were discovered, you will see that I won the election in Wisconsin,” Trump told the Journal Sentinel. “It also showed that I won elections in other places.”
On a CNN town hall event last year, Trump also refused to commit to accepting the results.
Recently interviews with Time magazineTrump said that while he didn’t think there would be political violence if he won this year’s race against Biden, “it always depends on the fairness of an election.”
“We are way ahead,” Trump said before repeating his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. “I don’t think they will be able to do the things they did last time, which were horrible. Absolutely horrible. They did so, so many different things that totally violated what was supposed to be happening. And you know it and everyone knows it. We can recite them, go through a list that would be as long as an arm. But I don’t think we’re going to have that. I think we will win. And if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.”
At a rally in Freehand, Michigan, on Wednesday, Trump announced a joint effort with the Republican National Committee, dubbed “Protect the Vote,” which he described as an effort to “make sure what happened in 2020 never happens again.”
“We will not allow that to happen,” Trump said.
The Trump campaign and the RNC last month also promised to send 100,000 volunteers and lawyers to swing states to monitor early voting, mail-in ballots, Election Day voting and any recounts, part of an effort they described as “protecting the vote and ensuring a big win” in November.
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