After he won the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump complained about his main GOP rival, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, about immigration, inflation, and his likely opponent in November, President Joe Biden.
One thing he didn’t complain about: Voter fraud in the election he had just won.
That continues a pattern for Trump as he steamrolls through the GOP presidential primary and toward an increasingly likely November rematch with Biden. While Trump generally refrains from claiming voter fraud in elections he wins, he spends plenty of time laying the groundwork to cry fraud should he lose an upcoming vote. He’s already been doing that with an eye toward November’s general election.
“They used COVID to cheat. And they did a lot of other things, too. We’re not going to let that happen,” Trump said of Democrats in his Tuesday night speech to supporters in New Hampshire. “You can never forget history, because if you forget, you never, you never recover from it. And you repeat.”
Ideally by then his media engagements would be scheduled around visitation.
Wow, that would be a surprise
This is the best summary I could come up with:
NEW YORK (AP) — After he won the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump complained about his main GOP rival, former South Carolina Gov.
Trump lost dozens of court challenges, his own attorney general found no evidence of widespread fraud, and reviews, audits and recounts in the battleground states where he contested his loss all affirmed Biden’s victory.
Rachel Orey of the Bipartisan Policy Center said Trump’s preemptive allegations of fraud have become built into the nation’s political culture.
Trump held back from echoing Vance’s allegations Tuesday, though he did briefly reiterate the unfounded claim that Democrats voted for Haley before focusing on his victory.
He’s previously described Biden as the real threat to democracy because the Justice Department is prosecuting Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and for illegally keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Steven Levitsky, a professor at Harvard and coauthor of “How Democracies Die,” said Trump’s refusal to admit defeat in elections combined with demonizing the other side is a textbook authoritarian tactic.
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Trust me, bro, they cheated. I can’t show you how but if you google it it’s out there. Just google it.
then he goes and blames google for ‘censoring’ things.
He certainly leans. But that’s mostly his platform heels.
If they control the ballot boxes why not just have Haley get to general?
This was the kid no one wanted to play with, who even the unpopular kids couldn’t feel pity for because they’re such a belligerent asshole upon conversation.
On the bright side, the day after the election, Biden will still be in the White House and Trump won’t.
That will make a Trump coup much harder IF he loses the election.
Only if we vote and mobilize others to do the same. He hasn’t lost until the election is over.
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
Man I really wish we could get a couple of better candidates than these two knuckleheads.
He would still cry about it even if he won.
He degenerates more into a disgusting slimy haggard worm every article picture.
It looks less like he’s speaking and more like he’s getting ready to deepthroat the mic.
Practicing for Putin.
This is why it needs to be a blowout. If Biden gets a slim victory it becomes a lot easier to convince more people that it was rigged.
Don’t worry, Trump’s gonna claim foul play no matter whether he wins or loses and by how much.
I used to say the same exact thing. Now I’m thinking a blowout would just lead to, “See! See! There’s no WAY Trump got beaten that badly!”
True. Maybe not a Reagan 1984 blowout. More like an Obama 2008 blowout.
Those fucktards are beyond reason. They’re a total loss. It’s time to move on without them and make them as irrelevant as possible.
Picture looks like Walmart Tony Bennett.
I swear to big baby jesus, this cuntrag is going to be whining like a little bitch even after he fucking dies (may it be painful, slow, and in a supermax).
What, the guy who complained about fraud in every election, even the one he won, would do it again?
Who cares, he’s not going to be president. The GOP should start focusing on 2028 and trying to find an actual presidential candidate somewhere in their basket of losers.
even the one he won
The tiny bit of shit-talking he did about fraud before he won in 2016 was only done just like this shit-talking right here is being done - to lay the groundwork for a full-on denial of the elction if he loses. Not because he believes there’s any fraud, not for any other goddamn reason other than to lay the groundwork to raise holy dumb dogshit when he loses.
He doesn’t give a flying fuck about fraud if he wins and anyone who implies anything different is badly mistaken.
he’s not going to be president.
Only if we vote and mobilize others to do the same. He hasn’t lost until the election is over.
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch
I know you’re right, but I also know the media is going to be pushing the ‘Trump might win!’ storyline nonstop until November. Rather than just report on, you know, all of his crimes and attempt to overthrow the United States, they’ll take the lazy way out and just keep repeating the same story maniacally for months.
Agreed. Complacency will kill everything positive about the country and, while Canadians love to poke fun at half of the presidents, it’s a little serious this time around.
Don’t make us burn it down again. :-D
