CBS Reporter Presses Trump On Pledge He’ll Accept Results of Upcoming Election
CBS political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns pressed former President Donald Trump on his refusal to accept the 2020 presidential election result after he pledged to accept the results of the upcoming election — if, and only if, it meets his criteria of being “fair and free.”
Huey-Burns interviewed Trump in Pennsylvania on Monday, while Democrats launched their convention in Chicago, covering a range of issues including his attacks on rival Vice President Kamala Harris and the release of his medical records – which he told the reporter he would “gladly do.”
Pressing the former president on whether he would accept the results of the 2024 election, Huey-Burns asked: “If you lose this election, will it have been legitimate?”
Trump replied: “If I see that we had a fair and free election, which I hope to be able to say, but if I see that, I will. You will never see anybody more honorable than me. I’m an honorable person. You see the report that came out on Biden today from Congress with all of the money that was stolen.”
This pledge comes despite the former president’s continued efforts to question the integrity of the 2020 election, which he lost to President Joe Biden. Trump has also faced multiple criminal charges related to both his 2016 campaign and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
“But you didn’t accept the results of the last election,” the reporter said.
Trump responded: “Well, that’s right, because there were many problems with the last election. You know it, so do they, and so does everybody else.”
Huey-Burns pushed back: “Even though all of the legal cases were dropped?”
Trump denied this: “No, no, they weren’t brought because the judges wouldn’t take them because they said it was after the election. Well, how else are you going to find out until after the election?”
He added: “I think things have been done over the last four-year period that will make this a free and fair election, and, certainly, if for some reason I lose, and I think if I lose, this country will go into a tailspin the likes of which it’s never seen before, the likes of 1929 — but if I do, and it’s free and fair, absolutely, I will accept the results.”
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