the polls in this election remain incredibly tight Trump could win Harris could win and what could happen if Trump loses we can expect legal challenges there's concern about violence and we know what happened last time we were getting ready to win this election frankly we did win this election we did win this election Trump would repeatedly and falsely claim the election had been stolen his allies launched multiple legal challenges Trump pressured his vice president not to certify the result and on January the 6th some of his supporters stormed the capital none of this worked the
result was certified but Trump has never accepted his defeat which brings us to this election if for some reason I lose and I think if I lose this country will go into a tail spin 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 but the last election was free and fair and we know what followed to avoid a repeat lawmakers passed a new law to make it harder for Congress to challenge the results that's here in Washington then
there are the states themselves as Politico reports since 2020 Trump allies have won seats on County and state election boards across the swing States likely to decide the 2024 contest and critics of trump see disruption ahead so you're seeing a growing movement of uh legal fights about whether local Boards of election can refuse to certify election results because of conspiracy theories about voter fraud or undocumented him and bur's voting senior Republicans though deny that Trump and his supporters want to undermine the electoral process his great concern is election security and it is mine as well
it is all of ours we are really uh seriously concerned about this um and we got to do everything that we can uh to ensure It Whatever the motives legal clashes are already beginning in Georgia a crucial swing state the election board with a prot trump majority ordered the hand counting of ballots in theory to ensure accuracy but a judge blocked this saying it adds uncertainty and disorder to the electoral process but legal challenges are now a feature of us politics and in this battle for the White House both Republicans and Democrats are ready for
court battles if they there's wrongdoing The Washington Post reports that the Harris team has more than 400 lawyers including volunteers who are specifically focused on post-election planning if Trump loses it seems certain this will end up in court but what about the possibility of political violence to assess that it's helpful to consider the circumstances in which it can happen it's countries that have presidential systems with win or take all elections um they're countries where the political part parties are deeply divided and distrustful of each other America ticks those two boxes Division and distrust are woven
into US politics and there's more it also happens in countries where the party that loses believes that the election was stolen and it's particularly likely if the losing party has lost a second consecutive election and if you think about those four factors it perfectly describes the United States if Trump loses that doesn't mean violence is inevitable but it's possible one survey found 68% of Americans are concerned that extremists will commit acts of violence after the election if they're unhappy with the election outcome and as election day approaches Trump continues to attack America's electoral system we
did great in 2016 a lot of people don't know we did much better in 2020 we won we won we win it was a rigged election the 2020 election wasn't rigged he didn't win but one poll found that over 60% of Republicans think that the election was stolen Trump lost the presidency but he succeeded in normalizing the rejection of election results for some Americans if he loses again we shouldn't be surprised if he rejects defeat again with all the risks that that inails
