 "'My supporters are not violent': Trump dismisses need to instruct supporters on violence if he loses")
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he didn’t feel the need to instruct his supporters to refrain from violence or accept the election results if he loses.
“I don’t have to tell them that,” CNN quoted Trump as saying when asked whether he would tell his supporters that there should be no violence.
“Would you tell them though?” he was asked.
“I don’t have to tell them that there’d be no violence. Of course they’ll be no violence. My supporters are not violent people. I don’t have to tell them. And I certainly don’t want any violence, but I certainly don’t have to tell them. These are great people. These are people that believe in no violence. Unlike your question. You believe in violence,” Trump said.
On January 6, 2021, Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol in a violent attempt to block the certification of the 2020 election results after Trump lost and refused to concede.
When asked by CNN whether he would declare victory that night, regardless of the results, Trump declined to answer.
The former president had just cast his vote in Palm Beach on Election Day and stopped to take questions from reporters.
Millions of Americans headed towards polling stations on Tuesday to elect the 47th President of the US, capping one of the most bitter presidential campaigns in the country’s history.
Harris and Trump remained neck and neck in polls conducted by various media outlets.
The two leaders need at least 270 electoral votes to win. The battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are expected to be pivotal to the path to victory.
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