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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOf course Trump might reject a 2020 loss. He still rejects the results of a race he won.
By Philip Bump
June 24 at 7:00 AM
As the presidential 2016 election wound down, a low rumble formed. Should Donald Trump lose the race, people wondered, would he accept the election results? Or, instead, would the country be ripped apart by a candidate and his fervent base of support refusing to accept what actually happened? In the third and final debate, Trump demurred on a question centered on that issue.
I will look at it at the time, he said of accepting the election results. He added that what Ive seen is so bad, what with the media being dishonest and so corrupt and with the existence of millions of people that are registered to vote that shouldnt be registered to vote.
This wasnt a new claim by Trump. He seized upon a 2012 report from the Pew Center on the States that noted that state voter rolls often included people whod died or moved because registrars were slow to update their records. As we reported at the time that Trump made this claim, there was no evidence that votes were actually cast on behalf of many or, really, any of these dead people. (An author of the report made the rounds after Trumps comments to note that there was no suggestion of fraud in his work.) The report simply served as a comfortable sort of gray area into which Trump could slot suggestions about how the system was stacked against him.
After the election, of course, Trump didnt need to reject its results: He was elected president. But he rejected the results of the election anyway.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/24/course-trump-might-reject-loss-he-still-rejects-results-race-he-won/
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Of course Trump might reject a 2020 loss. He still rejects the results of a race he won. (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jun 2019
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Response to DonViejo (Original post)
Chin music This message was self-deleted by its author.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)2. The 4th of July break is just a week. The August break is a month long.
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Chin music This message was self-deleted by its author.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)5. Whatever they do won't remove him. At best, the House will vote for Articles of Impeachment...
Then there's a trial in the Senate that needs 2/3 of the Senators (67) to remove him. No President has ever been removed.
Response to hedda_foil (Reply #5)
Chin music This message was self-deleted by its author.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)8. Gotcha!
duforsure
(11,885 posts)4. He rejects the truth
On a daily basis, and attacks those that promote it, and hurting his propaganda promotion making it less effective.
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Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)9. He can reject it all he wants
We'll drag him out of there if we have to.