WASHINGTON: Donald Trump said he may not accept the 2024 election results in Wisconsin, a key battleground state in his matchup with President Joe Biden, leaving open the possibility of post-election turmoil.
In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday, Trump said that if he doesn’t believe the result in November’s election was legitimate, “you have to fight for the right of the country.”
Trump added, “If everything’s honest, I will absolutely accept the results.”
The Republican presidential candidate’s comments came on the heels of an interview this week with Time magazine in which Trump did not rule out the possibility of political violence around the election, saying “it depends on the fairness” of the process.
In the Journal Sentinel interview, Trump reiterated his baseless claim that he won Wisconsin -- a Midwestern state he lost to Biden, a Democrat, by about 21,000 votes in 2020 -- and that the election was tainted by fraud.
Trump’s campaign unsuccessfully sought to disqualify almost 240,000 ballots cast for Biden.
Trump won Wisconsin over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, and his rematch this year with Biden is expected to be tight.
He held campaign rallies on Wednesday in Wisconsin and Michigan, another battleground state.
Trump said in the newspaper interview he won’t hesitate to raise doubts about the election if he’s convinced something is amiss with the results.
But he said that “very difficult hours and days” lay ahead for Fico
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