Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele criticized Donald Trump’s campaign for continuing to stoke conspiracies around election integrity.
Steele offered his reaction as The Weekend co-host after Trump’s comments in Wisconsin, where he implied he would only accept “honest” election results. The former lieutenant governor of Maryland called it a “weak” campaign tactic.
“Donald Trump is afraid of losing because it strikes at the core of the thing that’s most important to him, and that’s his ego, and he doesn’t want to do the work to actually win,” Steele said. “He wants to goad and cajole and bully people into believing something about our [electoral] system because he is too weak of a man to actually go out and campaign like any other normal candidate who would go out and campaign.”
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The former RNC chairman lamented that Trump continued to repeat the “fallacy” and suggested that should Trump lose a second time in November, “it’s because more people voted against you than for you and our electoral system confirms that.”
Meanwhile, former Attorney General Bill Barr recently endorsed Trump ahead of the 2024 election despite his disagreement about how Trump handled the 2020 election loss. Barr found that there was no significant election interference that affected the results, which caused a rift between him and his former boss.
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Steele endorsed Joe Biden ahead of his 2020 presidential election victory. While he hasn’t endorsed anyone for president this year yet, he is likely to endorse the incumbent president again, as Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee.
Despite Trump’s allusions to “honest” elections, the candidate has backed away from his opposition on mail-in ballots, which was once his primary target in his argument of election fraud. In 2020, about a third of Trump voters used either an absentee or mail-in ballot. Another 30% voted in person but early. Trump’s opponent, President Joe Biden, nabbed 58% of his votes by absentee and mail-in ballots.
