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On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump expressed reluctance to unconditionally commit to accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election, mirroring his stance from the 2020 campaign.
“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Trump stated in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”
During the same conversation, he reiterated his unfounded claim that he was the actual winner of the 2020 election in Wisconsin, despite official results to the contrary.
“If you go back and look at all of the things that had been found out, it showed that I won the election in Wisconsin,” Trump asserted to the Journal Sentinel. He added, “It also showed I won the election in other locations.”
This refusal to preemptively accept election results was also evident at a CNN town hall last year. Moreover, in recent discussions with Time magazine, Trump speculated about the absence of political violence if he wins against Biden this year, stating, “It always depends on the fairness of an election.”
“We’re way ahead,” Trump claimed, once again voicing his baseless allegations that the 2020 election was stolen. “I don’t think they’ll be able to do the things that they did the last time, which were horrible. Absolutely horrible. So many, so many different things they did, which were in total violation of what was supposed to be happening. And you know that and everybody knows that. We can recite them, go down a list that would be an arm’s long. But I don’t think we’re going to have that. I think we’re going to win. And if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.”
Additionally, at a rally in Freehand, Michigan, on the same day, Trump announced a new initiative in collaboration with the Republican National Committee called “Protect the Vote.” This effort, he described, is aimed at “ensuring what happened in 2020 will never happen again.”
“We’re not going to allow it to happen,” Trump declared.