By Raul Castillo
Aug 21, 2024, 5:41 PM EDT
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday that his goal for the coming months of the campaign is to prevent Democrats from cheating in the election and not to mobilize his own supporters.
“Our primary goal is not to get people to vote, but to make sure they don’t cheat,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Asheboro, North Carolina, his first outdoor rally since the attack.
According to the Republican, he has “all the votes” he needs to win the November general election, so he is not worried about increasing his electoral base. “You can see… on every house along the road there are signs: Trump, Trump, Trump, Vance, Trump, Vance.”
“We are going to fight like crazy to win this election,” he added, according to NBC News. “They are going to cheat like crazy to win the election because they have no limits.”
He has also claimed for years, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen.
On Monday, CBS asked the former president if he would recognize the results of the upcoming November election, to which he replied: “If I do, and it’s free and fair, I will absolutely accept the results.”
Peaceful transfer
Earlier Wednesday, Trump’s vice presidential nominee JD Vance said there would be a peaceful transfer of power, responding to President Joe Biden’s statement earlier this month that he had “no confidence at all” there would be a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses.
“We’ve had a peaceful transfer of power in every single election in this country, even though people, of course, have made a lot of noise about what happened on January 6th,” Vance told NBC News.
Vance added that “it’s a little bit odd for Joe Biden to say that, because he’s the one who will determine whether there will be a peaceful transfer of power.”
“On January 6th, there were some protests, and there were even some riots, and things got out of control,” Vance said. “And again, that’s not a good thing, but we still had a peaceful transfer of power, and that’s what’s going to happen, whoever wins the election in 2024, we’re going to continue to do that,” Trump’s vice presidential candidate told the outlet.
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