Trump will accept 2024 election results if it’s honest.

Trump Refuses to Commit to Accepting Results of 2024 Presidential Election

Former President Donald Trump was asked during a CNN town hall if he would commit to accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, was presented with the question by CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins at the live, televised event held in New Hampshire.

The former president responded that he’d only accept the results on one condition. “Yeah, if I think it’s an honest election, absolutely,” he said.

Collins didn’t accept his response and pressed on whether the former president would still accept the results regardless of the outcome. “If I think it’s an honest election, I would be honored to,” Trump responded.

Trump on 2020 Election

At the town hall, Trump reiterated his belief that the 2020 election was “rigged.” He noted that his loss was due to multiple factors not limited to voter fraud, but also the social media forces working against him leading up to the election, as well as a controversial letter signed by intel veterans that pushed against the Hunter Biden laptop story at the time, calling it Russian disinformation.

An ex-CIA official later said the Biden campaign was behind the letter. Yesterday, a new congressional report revealed that a CIA official helped recruit people to sign the letter.

Throughout the town hall on Wednesday, Trump refused to say that the 2020 election was not rigged. “You and your supporters lost more than 60 court cases on the election,” Collins told Trump. “It’s been nearly two and a half years. Can you publicly acknowledge that you did lose the 2020 election?”

In response, Trump told Collins that there has been video evidence of ballot boxes being stuffed. “They found millions of votes on camera, on government cameras, where they were stuffing ballot boxes. So with all of that, I think it’s a shame what happened. I think it’s a very sad thing for our country. I think it’s a very sad thing, frankly, for the world because if you look at what’s gotten to our country, our country has gone to hell.”

During the question and answer session, he also continued to refer to the 2020 election as being a stolen one. “When you look at what happened during that election, unless you’re a very stupid person, you see what happened,” Trump said. “It was a rigged election, and it was a shame that we had to go through it.”

First Major Televised Event of 2024 Presidential Campaign

The CNN forum marked the first major televised event of the 2024 presidential campaign. It was also Trump’s first interview appearance on CNN since before he became president in 2016. Prior to the event, Trump said CNN offered him “a deal I couldn’t refuse” in a post to Truth Social.

Summary

• Former President Donald Trump refuses to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election unless he believes it’s an honest election.
• Trump continues to refer to the 2020 election as being rigged and stolen.
• The CNN town hall marked the first major televised event of the 2024 presidential campaign.