VOTE! Biden Campaign Condemns Trump’s Refusal to Accept 2024 Election Outcome
DEBARYLIFE – On Thursday, the campaign of former President Donald Trump came under fire from Joe Biden, following Trump’s reaffirmation of his refusal to accept the outcome of the next presidential election.
“I will gladly accept the results if all is honest. In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday, Trump stated, “I don’t change on that.” “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”
The presumed Republican nominee, Donald Trump, did continue to express his expectation that the 2024 race will be “honest.”
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The Biden campaign issued a statement in reaction to Trump’s remarks, calling him a “danger to the Constitution and a threat to our democracy.”
‘You can’t love your nation only when you win,’ stated President Biden. However, Biden campaign spokesman James Singer stated in a statement that “for Donald Trump, his campaign of vengeance and retribution reigns supreme.”
Anadolu/Thomas Hengge via Getty Images – PHOTO: On April 18, 2024, President Joe Biden talks during a campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
When asked if he was concerned that Trump wouldn’t accept the election results on Thursday afternoon, Biden replied, “Pay attention to what he says,” by ABC News’s Karen Travers.
Trump made the most recent remarks during an interview that appeared in TIME Magazine this week, in which he implied that political violence would occur depending on whether or not he wins.
“I don’t believe that will occur. When questioned about potential political violence in the future, Trump told TIME Magazine, “I think we’re going to win.” “And it depends, you know, if we lose. It is always contingent upon how impartial an election is.”
Throughout the campaign road, Trump expressed skepticism regarding the results of the 2024 election. He has argued that his legal battles amount to “election interference,” given that he has had to balance campaign appearances with his New York hush money trial’s mandatory in-person court presence. The prosecution has refuted any political intent.
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In addition, Trump has disparaged early voting techniques like mail-in voting, which the Republican National Committee is trying to urge more Republican voters to use.
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Olson Scott/Getty Images – PHOTO: Former US President Donald Trump delivers a speech on May 1, 2024, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, during a campaign rally.
Additionally, Trump keeps making untrue statements regarding the safety of the 2020 election.
Speaking on Wednesday at rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan, where there was much controversy surrounding the 2020 election results, Trump persisted in his deceptive allegation that the election was rigged for the presidency. However, he made an effort to reassure his supporters that their votes would be protected, even for early voting and mail-in voting.
At his rally in Freeland, Michigan, Trump made a false claim: “Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020, but we’re not going to allow them to rig the presidential election, the most important day of our lives in 2024.”
“No matter how you vote, whether it’s early, on election day, by mail or in person, it doesn’t matter, we’ll make sure your ballot is secure,” Trump said. “We’ll make sure your ballots are secure, but we also want to reassure you. You will not cast votes that are invalid.”
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However, many of Trump’s supporters already harbor misgivings about the 2024 election system due to his persistent false claims about a “rigged” election; several people who attended his rally on Wednesday told ABC News that they don’t trust the American electoral system as it stands.
Regarding the 2020 presidential election, Don Barnard of Sanford, Michigan, who attended the Michigan event, stated, “I feel that Michigan went for Trump, but I don’t have any hard data to support that.”
Do I have any concerns about the way the election was handled? Indeed. However, may I say as a result of both of these? No, Barnard went on to say about the 2020 election. “There’s little I can do, and all I can do is pray we will have an honest election.”
Martin Humphrey, a Saginaw, Michigan resident who also attended the rally, told ABC News that he currently has no faith in the electoral process and that stricter laws should be implemented regarding voter ID and the practice of “ballot harvesting,” which is the gathering and submission of large numbers of mail-in ballots from vulnerable groups, such as the elderly. It is legal for someone other than the voter to return a ballot on behalf of another voter in more than 30 states.
Humphrey stated, “I believe that everyone should have an ID to vote.” “And ballot harvesting should be stopped.”