Pelosi said Trump might not leave office if he loses in 2020. He once said himself he might not.

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In 2016, the president said he might not accept the election results if he didn't like them.
Zack Ford
May 5, 2019, 3:28 pm

In a New York Times feature interview this weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned that it’s likely President Donald Trump will contest the results of the next election in an attempt to stay in power, especially if he loses by a thin margin. While this may sound like an extreme concern, it’s substantiated by Trump’s own rhetoric — he refused to say back in 2016 whether he would concede the election.

Pelosi’s specific concern is that if the 2020 election produces a very narrow victory for Democrats, Trump will reject the outcome by claiming that it was rigged, perhaps by regurgitating vacuous claims about Democratic voter fraud. She had the same concern last year, speculating that if Democrats only took back the House by a few seats won by narrow margins, “he would poison the public mind. He would challenge each of the races; he would say you can’t seat these people.”

Pelosi said only a decisive, overwhelming victory will convince him to step aside.

Trump himself has previously cast doubt on his ability to respect the results of an election he has lost. During the 2016 election, Trump regularly claimed that the election was rigged and that Hillary Clinton was trying to steal it from him. At the third presidential debate, he avoided a direct question as to whether he would concede the election if he were to lose. “I will look at it at the time,” he said.

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If Trump has cast doubt on U.S. presidential elections before, and even refuses to accept the results of a television award show, it stands to reason that he would not back down from a fight over the results of a national election that removes him from office. It might not even matter whether it’s close or not.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. What I got out of this NYT article. Pelosi

Against impeachment and not supporting green deal nor Medicare for all...calling them exuberances

Pretty much what many of our nominee candidates are for

[Iliyah]

2. They will have to

physically drag him out, kicking and screaming. Shithole may have his personal armed security as well.

It will be ugly.

[Kahuna7]

3. What she means is, the corrupt senate majority may find ways to corrupt the process...

like they did in bush v. Gore.

[NurseJackie]

4. I'm sure someone will help him to leave... and I'll just leave it at that.

[MFM008]

5. At the stroke of noon

On Jan 20. 2021 he becomes nobody.
A private citizen.
His cult wont save him.
Lets stop being afraid of his sad deluded followers
And make them fear us.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Exactly right! He will be a nobody. And then he can be forcibly removed, if need be. n/t

[PunkinPi]

7. Locking...

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