* In advance of last month’s California House special election, which the Republican went on to win, Trump tweeted that “(Democrats) are trying to steal another election. “You know, I keep hearing about the election and the various counting measures that they have.” He added that Democrats won all of the close elections in 2018 “There’s something going on,” he said, telling the assembled lawmakers that they needed to “be a little bit more paranoid than you are, OK?” “We’ve gotta watch those vote tallies,” Trump told a crowd of Republican lawmakers at a Republican fundraiser in May 2019. * Following the loss of the House majority in the 2018 election, Trump suggested to House Republicans that they had been victimized by Democratic cheating. * When Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016 – even while winning the Electoral College and the presidency! – he said, with zero proof, that 3 to 5 million illegal votes had been cast. “That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it,” tweeted Trump. * When Trump lost the 2016 Iowa caucuses to Texas Sen. ![]() The thing that could threaten Biden’s potential presidency – and the ability of the country to move on from what will be one of the nastiest elections in modern history – is if Trump simply refuses to admit he lost, never conceding that Biden is the fair-and-square president.Īnd that, judging by Trump’s long history of refusing to ever acknowledge defeat, and instead claiming he was cheated out of victory by nefarious forces, is not only a possible outcome but a likely one if the incumbent comes up short this fall. “Mark my words I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be held,” Biden said in April.īut the real danger here is not that Trump changes the date of the general election, which is virtually impossible, or that he seeks to claims squatter’s rights in the White House. ![]() The comments, which Biden made in an interview with Trevor Noah on “The Daily Show,” are not the first time that the former vice president – and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee – has suggested that he believes the incumbent may well seek to fiddle with the election results. Joe Biden said Wednesday night that he believes if President Donald Trump loses the election and refuses to leave the White House, many of the former generals who used to work for him “will escort him from the White House with great dispatch.”
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