President Trump was asked this afternoon at Joint Base Andrews whether he would respect next week’s midterm results “no matter what.”
“I will if it’s an honest election, yes,” he said before walking away from reporters to board a flight to campaign for a candidate in Texas who secretly — or maybe not so secretly — doesn’t want his help.
Trump has already used this formula to cover himself and contest the results of elections he did not win. In May 2024, while running against President Joe Biden, Trump told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he would only accept the results of the presidential election if “everything is fair,” before continuing with another of his rants about how he thinks he won the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin and “other places.”
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