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“Vote it!”
The words chanted by protesters when US President Donald Trump visited the Supreme Court to pay his respects to Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
But if the Americans “eliminate” him on Election Day, will Trump accept the result?
When asked by journalists if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power, US President Donald Trump declined to do so.
“We’re going to have to see what happens,” he said.
Repeating his claims that voting by mail will lead to fraud and inaccuracies, he added: “The ballots are a disaster.”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany later said that Donald Trump would accept the results of a “free and fair election,” while still questioning the vote-by-mail ballots.
This is not the first time Donald Trump has suggested that he cannot leave the White House if Joe Biden wins.
In a July interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, he declined to give a direct answer when asked if he would accept the election result.
“I’ll have to see. I’m not just going to say ‘yes’. I’m not going to say no and I didn’t do it last time either,” Trump said.
In June, his Democratic opponent Joe Biden told The Daily Show that his biggest concern was that Donald Trump would try to steal the election.
“This is a guy who said that all mail ballots are fraudulent, he votes by mail, while he sits behind the desk in the Oval Office and writes his mail ballot to vote in a primary,” he said.
Biden said he did not believe that Donald Trump would have the support of his generals if he refused to leave office.
“There are so many military base that say, well, we are not a military state, this is not what we are. I promise you, I am absolutely convinced, they will escort him from the White House in an office,” he said.
The act of physically removing someone from the White House is one thing, but if a sitting president refuses to accept the outcome of an election, it could spark a wave of unrest across the country.
In recent months, there have been clashes between Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters.
Racial unrest was rekindled this week by the decision not to charge Louisville, Kentucky police officers for the murder of African-American woman Breonna Taylor.
Democrats are infuriated by Republicans’ plans to push for a Supreme Court nomination before the election.
Tensions are high right now in the United States and the last thing the country needs is a disputed electoral result.
Republicans have insisted there will be a peaceful transfer of power, and some have dismissed Donald Trump’s comments as boastfulness and rhetoric.
It may just be Trump’s words, but when you’re the president of the United States, words matter.
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