During an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday, former president Donald Trump refused to accept the results of the impending 2024 presidential election without conditions.
I will gladly accept the results if everything is honest. Regarding that, I remain unchanged,” Trump stated during the interview. “You must stand up for what is right for the nation if it isn’t.”
This is Trump’s most recent attempt to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the American voting system in the case that he is defeated in November. Additionally, he cast doubt on the veracity of the ballots that will be tallied “honestly” and made incorrect assertions about winning the state of Wisconsin in the 2020 election throughout the interview.
A review of the previously disclosed information “showed that I won the election in Wisconsin,” Trump informed the Journal Sentinel. “It also proved that I had won the election in other places.”
With a margin of approximately 21,000 votes, or approximately 0.6 percentage points, President Joe Biden prevailed in Wisconsin in 2020.
After expressing his expectation that the 2024 election will be “honest,” Trump threatened to “let it be known” if he had any doubts.
“I would be betraying the nation if I stated differently,” Trump informed the Journal Sentinel. “No, I anticipate a fair election, and we anticipate a victory, perhaps a significant one.”
We expect everything to be honest, and there have been a lot of changes in the last few years, but if everything is honest, I will totally accept the results,” Trump stated.
I hope that those who cast ballots do it with integrity. The ballots must be counted in an honest manner, please. According to Trump, he does not want lawmakers to approve unapproved measures and then proceed with them nonetheless.
Following Trump’s Thursday comments, the Biden campaign strongly denounced him.
One cannot love their nation merely in the event of victory, as President Biden has put it. The campaign released a statement saying that, for Donald Trump, the pursuit of revenge and vengeance is paramount. “According to his own statements, he is pledging to take over as dictator on ‘day one,’ turn the military against the American people, retaliate against his opponents, approve of acts of violence committed in his name, and prioritize his own ambition for power over America’s best interests.
In sum, Trump poses a threat to American democracy and the Constitution. Because his fanaticism, love of violence, and need for vengeance are still rejected by the American people, he will suffer another electoral loss this November.
There is no proof of massive voting fraud, but Trump has claimed the 2020 election was rigged or “stolen” on multiple occasions. In his indictment of Trump last year, special counsel Jack Smith alleged that Trump had violated multiple laws in his pursuit of an election reversal. The president has pleaded not guilty and disputed the accusations.
Trump has displayed a consistent pattern of denial of election results and failure to concede defeat throughout his political career. In 2016, after coming in second place in the Iowa caucuses, Trump demanded a new election and accused Ted Cruz of fraud. Cruz is a senator from Texas. Trump later refused to commit to the results of the election he ultimately won and made unfounded claims about it being “rigged” when running against Democrat Hillary Clinton. As we approach the 2024 election, he has once again evaded responsibility.
At a news conference earlier this month, the likely Republican nominee and House Speaker Mike Johnson sought to “draw attention to” what they claimed were state initiatives and litigation that would grant voting rights to non-citizens, as reported by AWN earlier.
There is a current prohibition on non-citizens casting ballots in federal elections. Voters who are not citizens run the danger of fines, jail time (up to one year) and deportation if caught. But in an effort to sow panic about immigration and election security in the run-up to the November election, Trump has repeatedly made bogus accusations that Democrats want illegal immigrants to enter the nation to influence the election.
On Wednesday, Trump made his first public appearance since the start of his criminal hush money trial in New York last month. Two key battleground states that he won in 2016 but would likely lose to Biden in 2020, the presumed Republican nominee spent the day holding rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan.
