Donald Trump Says He’ll Concede if He Loses ‘Fair Election’

The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he will concede defeat in the 2024 election if he loses a “fair” race.
Speaking while casting his vote in Palm Beach, Florida, the former president was asked by a reporter how he would respond to concerns that he might not concede if he loses the election to Kamala Harris.
“I think they’re crazy,” Trump said. “If I lose an election, if it’s a fair election, I’d be the first one to acknowledge it. So far, I think it’s been fair.”
Following his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, Trump continually made false claim of voter fraud and frequently said that the election was rigged. Trump refused to acknowledge Biden fairly won that election, and his supporters later stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as a part of an alleged attempt to stop the certification of the results.
Speaking further at the Palm Beach polling station on Tuesday, Trump dismissed suggestions that he needs to tell his supporters not to be violent if he loses the election.
“I don’t have to tell them that. There’ll be no violence, of course there’ll be no violence, my supporters are not violent people,” Trump said.
He said that he thinks that the vote counting process is “too complicated.”
“If we had a piece of paper watermarked—you know that paper is more sophisticated now than computers—it’s watermarked paper. It’s unbelievable what happens with it, there nothing you can do to cheat.
“We spend hundreds of millions and billions of dollars on these campaigns. You could do it for 8 percent of the cost and have accuracy, and we wouldn’t have to be worried about when Pennsylvania is going to announce,” Trump added. “It’s really a shame.”
Trump added he feels “very confident” about his chances in this election, saying that he came into Election Day “with a very big lead.”
“It looks like Republicans have shown up in force, so we’ll see how it turns out,” he said.
Forecasters and polls suggest the race between Trump and Harris is a toss-up which could go either way.
The final forecaster models from FiveThirtyEight and veteran pollster Nate Silver suggested that Harris was a marginal favorite, but essentially called the race a coin flip.
Decision Desk HQ/The Hill’s forecast give Trump a 54 percent chance of winning the election, with the Republican projected to win 276 Electoral College votes.
Update 11/05/2024: This article has been updated with additional information.