Former president Donald Trump He escalated his baseless voter fraud allegations in Phoenix on Saturday, saying Democratic Party After Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs urged the Republicans to overcome his defeat in the 2020 election, no elections can be won without cheating.
The Democrat Hobbes encouraged Trump to “accept the loss, accept it and move on” on Friday night, before the former president’s speech at the “Save Our Election Rally” organized by the conservative organization Turning Point Action. one day.
“Nothing that happens here will change the outcome, in fact, this is just a painful loser,” she told CNN.
As a country Senate After continuing to audit the votes in Maricopa County for months, Trump opened his speech at the rally, claiming that “Democrats cannot win the election without cheating.”
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Trump fought back at Hobbes, telling the crowd that he would accept to lose the election.
“If I lose the election, I can accept it. Seriously,” he said. “I will start building the building. I will keep myself busy, but they stole it from us.”
The former president continued to promote his voter fraud conspiracy theory throughout the speech, thank you Republicans They expressed support for his efforts to overthrow the election and condemned those who opposed the election, including the former vice president. Mike Pence.
Trump also repeated several specific allegations that were rejected by the court in dozens of unsuccessful lawsuits attempting to overthrow the president. Joe BidenVictory. Among them, “74,000 mailed ballots were counted, but there was no clear record of sending”-this statement was refuted by Maricopa County election officials as misinformation.
On January 6, a group of pro-Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol after Trump promoted a rally on baseless voter fraud accusations.Some Republicans, including senator minority leaders Mitch McConnell, Broke with Trump after the rebellion, but others tried to ally with the former president in order to gain a basis for his loyalty.
Earlier in the day, Arizona Republican Representative Andy Briggs suggested that Trump could be reinstated before 2024. This drew enthusiastic applause from the crowd-this is supporters who continue to promote online False claims.
“In 2024, if not earlier, Donald J. Trump will return to the presidency,” he said.
Officials in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county, concluded a formal audit of the results in November, but found no discrepancies. But Republican state senators have advanced their own review. Audits and recounts in key battlefield states only reaffirmed Biden’s victory, even in regions where the election was overseen by pro-Trump Republicans.
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