Donald Trump and his followers are preparing for possible challenges to the upcoming presidential election and are already raising doubts about the legitimacy of the vote.
Donald Trump and his team are already preparing the way to challenge a possible election defeat in November. This is reported by the news agency “Reuters”.
The preparations are already raising doubts about the legitimacy of the election, even though opinion polls show the Republican presidential candidate leading in battleground states.
In recent interviews, Trump avoided making a clear commitment to accept the election results. At rallies, he portrayed Democrats as fraudsters, described postal votes as corrupt, and called on his supporters to vote in such large numbers that the election would be “too big to manipulate,” according to Reuters.
In an interview with Time magazine in April, Trump even refused to rule out violent incidents after a negative outcome for him in the November election. In response to a related question, he replied: “If we don’t win, that’s what matters.”
The Republican National Committee, now headed by his daughter-in-law and close ally, has been instructed by Trump to build a team of poll observers and lawyers to monitor the vote and legally resolve any potential post-election challenges, according to a source.
Two candidates for a possible vice presidency under Trump, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, refused in television interviews to commit to recognizing the results in November.
Another possible vice presidential candidate, Senator J.D. Vance, of Ohio, said in a CNN interview that he would accept the result if the election was “free and fair,” but said Republicans should be prepared to pursue potential problems.
Critics now fear that Trump wants to convince his supporters, as he did after losing the 2020 election, to believe in a system that was rigged against him.
“Reuters” quotes Olivia Troye, a former aide to Vice President Mike Pence and a vocal critic of Trump: “The potential for anger, division, political violence – all of that is being prepared again.”