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John Bolton has warned that he doesn’t believe Donald Trump will accept the election results if he loses and “we should be ready” for him to reject them if Kamala Harris wins.
The former national security adviser, who has turned on Trump, was asked whether he believed the former president would accept the results if they are not in his favor on Tuesday. “No, I don’t think so,” Bolton told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins. “And I think we should be ready for it.”
“I think everybody ought to be ready because Trump never loses. And if he loses, it’s because it’s ‘stolen’ so it will be difficult,” Bolton added.
Bolton also weighed in on Trump’s inflammatory remarks about Liz Cheney being shot in the face during a campaign appearance. The former president joined conservative broadcaster Tucker Carlson on stage at an event in Glendale, Arizona, on Thursday night where he branded the former Republican representative a “radical war hawk.”
“I do think, in Liz Cheney’s case, though, there’s more to this that people are not catching,” Bolton said. “And that is, his criticism of her is not based on her being a war hawk or anything else.
“The fact is, she voted to impeach him, after January the 6th, and he cannot get it out of his head.”
Trump has been sowing doubts on the outcome of the election for months. He claimed he’s already winning in the three key swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania while speaking at a rally last month with Turning Point Action, an organization founded by far-right political activist Charlie Kirk.
A recent poll also found the majority of American voters believe Trump will not accept the election results if he loses to Harris.
The CNN poll, conducted by SSRS, found that, if the former president loses next week, only 30 percent of all registered voters believe he will concede to his opponent. By contrast, 73 percent believe Harris will accept the election result if she loses.
Zeroing in on sentiment from Harris and Trump supporters, the poll found that 95 percent of Harris supporters do not believe Trump will concede if he loses. A majority (57 percent) of Trump supporters, however, believe he will concede and accept the result if he loses.
