Trump Says Acceptance of Election Loss Will Depend on How “Honest” Results Are

During a campaign stop this week in Waukesha, Wisconsin, former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in this year’s presidential election, indicated that he wouldn’t accept the election results if he loses.

When questioned by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about whether he’d concede should he lose the election to his Democratic opponent President Joe Biden, Trump framed the issue as being about honesty and pushed false talking points about election fraud.

“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results,” Trump told the publication. “I don’t change on that. If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”

In that same interview, Trump insisted that he had actually won Wisconsin in the 2020 election.

“If you go back and look at all of the things that had been found out, it showed that I won the election in Wisconsin,” Trump wrongly claimed. “It also showed I won the election in other locations.”