White House declines to say whether Trump will accept election results if he loses
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany did not perpetrate President Trump to accepting that the outcome of the presidential election, saying the president was clear he will "see what happens" in November.
On Wednesday, McEnany was asked if that comment means the president will not take the election results if he loses.
"Is the president saying if he doesn't win this election that he won't accept the outcomes, unless he wins?" An ABC News journalist inquired.
"The president has said he'll see what happens, and also make a determination in the aftermath. It's the exact same thing that he said last November. He wants a free election, a fair election, and he wants confidence in the results of the election," McEnany reacted, before criticizing states with mass unemployment.
The president did really offer a similar answer in a recent interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, who asked the president if he would commit to accepting the election results.
"I have to see. Look, you -- I must see. No, I am not going to only say 'yes.' I'm not going to say no and that I didn't last time ," the president said during the meeting.
Mr. Trump has undermined confidence in the integrity of the election outcome, blasting mass voting by mail even though he himself is expected to vote in November and a lot of his top aides like McEnany have in the past. The president insists an election with several ballots cast by mail will be "rigged." This week he took aim at secure ballot drop boxes, which can be used in both Democratic and Republican-led nations.
"Some countries use 'drop boxes' for the group of Universal Mail-In Ballots. So who is going to 'gather' the Ballots, and what might be done to these before tabulation? So bad for our Country. Just Absentee Ballots okay!" The president tweeted before this week.
There is absolutely not any proof that there is widespread fraud when voting by mail, and the voter fraud commission that the president himself established discovered scant evidence of voter fraud. The president finally disbanded the commission.
On Wednesday, McEnany was asked if that comment means the president will not take the election results if he loses.
"Is the president saying if he doesn't win this election that he won't accept the outcomes, unless he wins?" An ABC News journalist inquired.
"The president has said he'll see what happens, and also make a determination in the aftermath. It's the exact same thing that he said last November. He wants a free election, a fair election, and he wants confidence in the results of the election," McEnany reacted, before criticizing states with mass unemployment.
The president did really offer a similar answer in a recent interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, who asked the president if he would commit to accepting the election results.
"I have to see. Look, you -- I must see. No, I am not going to only say 'yes.' I'm not going to say no and that I didn't last time ," the president said during the meeting.
Mr. Trump has undermined confidence in the integrity of the election outcome, blasting mass voting by mail even though he himself is expected to vote in November and a lot of his top aides like McEnany have in the past. The president insists an election with several ballots cast by mail will be "rigged." This week he took aim at secure ballot drop boxes, which can be used in both Democratic and Republican-led nations.
"Some countries use 'drop boxes' for the group of Universal Mail-In Ballots. So who is going to 'gather' the Ballots, and what might be done to these before tabulation? So bad for our Country. Just Absentee Ballots okay!" The president tweeted before this week.
There is absolutely not any proof that there is widespread fraud when voting by mail, and the voter fraud commission that the president himself established discovered scant evidence of voter fraud. The president finally disbanded the commission.
