After he won the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump complained about his main GOP rival, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, about immigration, inflation, and his likely opponent in November, President Joe Biden.

One thing he didn’t complain about: Voter fraud in the election he had just won.

That continues a pattern for Trump as he steamrolls through the GOP presidential primary and toward an increasingly likely November rematch with Biden. While Trump generally refrains from claiming voter fraud in elections he wins, he spends plenty of time laying the groundwork to cry fraud should he lose an upcoming vote. He’s already been doing that with an eye toward November’s general election.

“They used COVID to cheat. And they did a lot of other things, too. We’re not going to let that happen,” Trump said of Democrats in his Tuesday night speech to supporters in New Hampshire. “You can never forget history, because if you forget, you never, you never recover from it. And you repeat.”

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    79 months ago

    This is why it needs to be a blowout. If Biden gets a slim victory it becomes a lot easier to convince more people that it was rigged.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      99 months ago

      I used to say the same exact thing. Now I’m thinking a blowout would just lead to, “See! See! There’s no WAY Trump got beaten that badly!”

    • donuts
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      39 months ago

      Don’t worry, Trump’s gonna claim foul play no matter whether he wins or loses and by how much.

    • @cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
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      19 months ago

      Those fucktards are beyond reason. They’re a total loss. It’s time to move on without them and make them as irrelevant as possible.