Donald Trump has said he will leave the White House if the Democratic presidential-elect in the upcoming presidential election votes for Biden in an election-oriented college.
Biden won the presidential election by 306 voters with college-led votes – 270 more than Trump’s 232 required. Biden also puts Trump ahead of more than 6 million in the popular vote count.
Trump has so far rejected tradition by refusing to accept defeat, instead launching a series of baseless claims about alleged ballot fraud and initiating legal efforts to challenge the results in some states, such as Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Trump’s remarks to reporters at the White House after speaking to troops during a traditional Thanksgiving Day address to U.S. service members seem to take him one step closer to accepting defeat and allaying fears that the fight for the outcome will continue.
Asked if he would leave the White House if the college vote went against him, Trump said: “Of course I will. And you know that. If they do, they make a mistake.
However, Trump said it would be a “very difficult thing to admit” in the current circumstances and declined to say whether he would attend Biden’s inauguration on January 20.
Trump insisted that “this election was a fraud,” while providing no concrete evidence of voting irregularities.
The election is scheduled to take place on December 14 when the nominees of each state will vote for the winner of the state’s presidential election. The votes are officially counted by Congress on January 6th.
Some Republicans have voted that they could ignore the popular vote and appoint pro-Trump voters to change the outcome in some states, raising concerns that the president may refuse to step down.
