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Trump added, “If everything’s honest, I will absolutely accept
the results.”
The Republican presidential candidate's comments came on the
heels of an interview this week with Time magazine in which
Trump did not rule out the possibility of political violence
around the election, saying “it depends on the fairness” of the
process.
On his way to an event on Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina,
Biden was asked whether he is worried Trump won’t accept the
election results.
"Listen to what he says," Biden said.
In the Journal Sentinel interview, Trump reiterated his baseless
claims that he won Wisconsin -- a Midwestern state he lost to
Biden, a Democrat, by about 21,000 votes in 2020 -- and that the
election was tainted by fraud. Trump's campaign unsuccessfully
sought to disqualify almost 240,000 ballots cast for Biden.
Trump won Wisconsin over Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, and
his rematch this year with Biden is expected to be tight. He
held campaign rallies on Wednesday in Wisconsin and Michigan,
another battleground state.
Trump said in the newspaper interview that he will not hesitate
to raise doubts about the election if he is convinced something
is amiss with the results.
"I'd be doing a disservice to the country if I said otherwise,"
Trump said. "But no, I expect an honest election and we expect
to win maybe very big."
(Reporting by James Oliphant in Washington and Jeff Mason in
North Carolina; Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Jonathan Oatis and
Daniel Wallis)
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