Trump says he will 'do other things’ if he loses election, asserts it will be 'very sad thing for our country'
President Donald Trump has been accused by his opponents of trying to steal the November election if he didn’t win. Recently, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden brought such allegations during a TV interview and even said the military will escort the maverick Republican out of the White House if he lost the contest. Trump, however, has shot down the accusation and said he “will go on and do other things” if he didn’t bag a second term. A well-functioning economy placed the incumbent in a strong position months ahead of the election despite his impeachment. But the blows delivered by coronavirus and the anti-racist protests have hurt his chances over the last few months.
Speaking to Fox News in an interview on Friday, June 12, Trump said: “Certainly if I don’t win, I don’t win. I mean, you know, go on and do other things.” His political opponents are worried that he might not accept the results of the election if they went against him. Just weeks ahead of the 2016 election, in which he defeated former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Trump warned that he would not accept the results if he lost.
Trump, in his latest interview, however, said that if he lost, it would be a “very sad thing” for the US. He said the people of the US were “getting a glimpse of liberal policies” in the wake of the protest against Floyd’s death. “It was all very liberal mayors, radical left mayors, all of these places,” he said, adding: “It was not that they were not in Republican cities. They were all in cities that frankly, I think I have a chance to win many of those cities. But these were all cities run by radical lefts Democrats. And I think it's a very sad thing that would happen."
It was in an interview with Trevor Noah of 'The Daily Show' that Biden said that Trump is going to steal this year’s election and that remained his “single greatest concern”. In April, Biden alleged that Trump would try to delay the November election in the middle of the challenges that he is facing though the president nullified such fears. Last year, when Chuck Todd asked the president on NBC’s 'Meet the Press' whether he would accept the results, he said “100 percent”.
'Joe's not all there'
When host Harris Faulkner asked Trump about Biden’s apprehension, the president said: “Look, Joe's not all there. Everybody knows. And it's sad when you look at it and you see it, you see it for yourself. He's created his own sanctuary city in the basement or wherever he is and he doesn't come out.” He then went on to say that if he doesn’t win, he doesn’t win.
The Democrats are afraid that the president will try to secure his power by interfering or undermining the outcome of the election, pointing out to his allegation that there would be massive voter fraud through mail-in voting, a practice which is being promoted as an alternative to physical casting of ballot in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 114,000 people. Over two million people have been affected, making the US the worst-affected nation in the world.