Trump and his fans directed the same 2020 energy toward election fraud accusations in the run-up months to the US election.
As the US election enters its final week, attention is beginning to turn toward the rhetoric already being promulgated by Donald Trump and his adherents regarding the outcome of the 2024 cycle.
An ABC News/Ipsos poll that came out earlier this year said most Americans believe that the 2024 GOP presidential candidate will refuse to accept a loss in the election and perhaps replay the infamous moment in history that helped kick off the violence on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The result, which Trump would probably oppose, will not even be acceptable to the voters who elected the former President. Only 29 percent of the respondents said they believed Trump would accept the results even if he lost, and two-thirds of voters would not.
The former President’s “cheating” claims began as far back as April. During the speech to the crowd in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach early this year, Trump kept on peddling some bogus claims that were akin to those he made during his presidential campaign in 2020.
This is where he repeated the “Big Lie” from 2020, stating that Biden’s campaign “took advantage of COVID last time” to win.
“We’re going to bring our country back. We’re going to get out there. We’re going to vote. We’re going to oversee the cheating,” he said at the April event.
I’ll tell you what: If it’s just by the vote, they could cancel that election. We win that election right now,” he added. He further dabbled in unsubstantiated claims and said, “We have so many more votes than they do, but we have to be very vigilant. We have to be very careful.”
