Former President Donald Trump says he may not accept the 2024 election results in Wisconsin, a key swing state, in his race against President Joe Biden, reiterating a similar move from 2021.
In a new interview, Trump, currently on trial in New York while he is also campaigning for a return to the White House, declared that if he doesn't consider the result of November's election legitimate, "you have to fight for the right of the country."
"If everything's honest, I will absolutely accept the results," he said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday.
Trump has not ruled out the likelihood of political violence surrounding the election but revealed "it depends on the fairness" of the process, as reported by Reuters.
The former president continues to stand by his unfounded claim that he had actually won the State of Wisconsin by 21,000 votes in 2020 against Biden and that the election was smeared by fraud.
In an unsuccessful attempt, Trump tried to disqualify almost 240,000 ballots cast for Biden in the previous election.
While his rematch with Biden later this year is expected to be neck-and-neck, he won Wisconsin over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Trump organized rallies on Wednesday in key battleground states, Wisconsin and Michigan, despite the overhelming felony charges he's facing as his trial play outs in a New York courtroom.
"I'd be doing a disservice to the country if I said otherwise," Trump stated.
"But no, I expect an honest election, and we expect to win, maybe very big," he added.
