Former president Donald Trump During the CNN presidential debate, he said he would accept the results of the November election if the 2024 race was a “fair, legal and good election” – before continuing to repeat the voter fraud claim he lost four years ago.
CNN debate moderator Dana Bash asked Trump three times whether he would accept the results of the 2024 election. The first two times he didn’t answer the question directly, but on his third attempt, Trump said in part: “If it’s a fair, legal, good election, absolutely.”
“I would have taken them more, but the fraud and everything else was ridiculous — if you want, we’ll have a press conference about it in a week, or we’ll have one of these in a week,” Trump said, referring to another discussion with President Joe Biden. he said.
Trump did not provide more specific criteria that would lead him to accept the results.
Trump has refused to publicly admit that he lost the 2020 presidential race against Biden. The former president has faced repeated and baseless accusations of widespread voter fraud, and nearly all of the dozens of lawsuits filed by his campaign and allies have either been dismissed or withdrawn.
The presumptive Republican nominee’s unproven allegations of rigged elections and his reaction to his 2020 defeat have raised concerns about how he will respond to another loss.
Trump has also come under fire for his actions on January 6, 2021, the day some of his supporters stormed the US Capitol. He did not directly condemn the violence of that day and did not apologize for his rhetoric in the days leading up to the riots.
“On January 6, we were respected all over the world, we were respected all over the world,” Trump said. Then, referring to Biden, he added: “Then they come in and now they’re laughing at us.”