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Trump is using election lies to lay the groundwork for challenging 2024 results if he loses
The Associated Press ^ | November 1, 2024 | BY JILL COLVIN (D-AP)

Posted on 11/02/2024 8:24:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has spent months laying the groundwork to challenge the results of the 2024 election if he loses — just as he did four years ago.

At rally after rally, he urges his supporters to deliver a victory “too big to rig,” telling them the only way he can lose is if Democrats cheat. He has refused to say, repeatedly, whether he will accept the results regardless of the outcome. And he’s claimed cheating is already underway, citing debunked claims or outrageous theories with no basis in reality.

“The only thing that can stop us is the cheating. It’s the only thing that can stop us,” he said at an event in Arizona late Thursday night.

In 2020, Trump prematurely declared victory from the White House. He launched a legal and political effort to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden that culminated in the storming of the Capitol by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Democrats fear he may do the same thing this year before the race is called. He wouldn’t answer a question Friday in Dearborn, Michigan, about those Democratic concerns, instead pivoting to attacking Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump has made election lies central to his 2024 campaign, issuing fevered warnings about fraud while promising to take retribution against people he sees as standing in his way.

This year, he is backed by a sophisticated “election integrity” operation built by his campaign and the Republican National Committee that has filed more than 130 lawsuits already and signed up more than 230,000 volunteers being trained to deploy as poll watchers and poll workers across the country on Election Day.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


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1 posted on 11/02/2024 8:24:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

quemala/tampon timmy have been spending months on how to steal the election. Just sayin’......

“NO WAY FORWARD!”. quemala/tampon timmy.


2 posted on 11/02/2024 8:27:29 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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3 posted on 11/02/2024 8:27:42 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP: ALWAYS PREVARICATING


4 posted on 11/02/2024 8:28:01 AM PDT by jimbug
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nothing like a fair and non partisan press, is there. They obviously don’t believein fair and honest press, so why would they believe in fair and honest elections?


5 posted on 11/02/2024 8:28:54 AM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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He should challenge the results even if he wins. Pick a few nefarious states.


6 posted on 11/02/2024 8:29:16 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The media has a short-term goal and a long term goal —

Short-term) Tell everyone that the worst thing anyone could do is challenge the election results. If you lose, you lose. It’s insurrection if you don’t accept the results. The public must be convinced of this.

Long-Term) If Trump manages to pull this out and actually “win”, Democrats must be ready to challenge these fraudulent results. This will not stand. Congress and the Courts must get involved to make sure that this monster does not take office. The public must be prepared to fight for Harris if the results do not go her way.


7 posted on 11/02/2024 8:30:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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“citing debunked claims or outrageous theories with no basis in reality.”

Uh, somebody should bone up on the news out of Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan and several other locations before stating that the claims are “debunked.”

Pretty sure there’s a boat load of cheating and attempted cheating going on . . .


8 posted on 11/02/2024 8:30:11 AM PDT by MCSETots ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Without independent verification of cast votes, elections can be manipulated by those in power.


9 posted on 11/02/2024 8:30:46 AM PDT by batazoid (Trump Must Sue)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The AP is lying about pres Trump in order to lay the groundwork to accuse him of chesting if he should win


10 posted on 11/02/2024 8:31:12 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Regurgitating DNC talking points as all partisan media shills do.

11 posted on 11/02/2024 8:32:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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No bias in this reporting by the AssPress. The people at the AP would never investigate democrat cheating in elections. They would never do something like that. According to the deep thinkers at the AP Trump is making up lies. Who has the track record of telling lies? It's not Trump. It's the media and their democrat butt buddies. Trump has been vindicated time after time. The liars in the democrat party and the media have been caught lying over and over again. They are even lying about Kamala being black. They are all racist garbage.
12 posted on 11/02/2024 8:33:29 AM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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“...citing debunked claims or outrageous theories with no basis in reality.”

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Similar to the “debunked” Russia collusion claims?
Similar to the “outrageous theories” that the Democrats were waging racketeering-style lawfare to remove Trump from the election?
Or perhaps the “debunked” beliefs that the MSM obscured Biden’s mental deterioration from the public?

Are those a few of the things that “aren’t based in reality”?


13 posted on 11/02/2024 8:34:09 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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Is anyone at all surprised? SMH
14 posted on 11/02/2024 8:34:10 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Is anyone at all surprised? SMH
15 posted on 11/02/2024 8:34:19 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Apologies for the double post


16 posted on 11/02/2024 8:34:56 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: MCSETots

And all being challenged and most being shut down by higher courts already. This isn’t 2020. Move forward. Get your family and friends and get them to the polls.


17 posted on 11/02/2024 8:35:15 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: MCSETots

Are we going to believe the press or our lying eyes?


18 posted on 11/02/2024 8:36:15 AM PDT by packagingguy
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"the only way he can lose is if Democrats cheat"

A kernel of truth in otherwise leftist propaganda.

19 posted on 11/02/2024 8:36:34 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Frank Drebin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
Bingo! The Trump cult is actually entirely made up of NeverTrumpers inside and outside the Demagogic Party. The term Leftwing Cult is redundant.

20 posted on 11/02/2024 8:38:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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