If he doesn’t win
Trump predicts “bloodbath for the entire country”
March 17, 2024, 5:41 a.m
During a campaign appearance, Donald Trump delivers another low rhetorical blow: There will be a “bloodbath” if he is not elected, he claims, although it is not entirely clear what he is referring to. The Biden camp sees this as a threat of political violence.
Republican presidential candidate Trump has announced the likely end of American democracy if he loses the election in November. “If we don’t win this election, I don’t believe there will be another election in this country,” Trump told supporters in Ohio. He further threatened: “If I am not elected, there will be a bloodbath for the entire country.”
What exactly he meant by that wasn’t entirely clear. Before the statement was made, Trump spoke about the prospects for the US auto industry. Referring to China’s alleged plans to build cars in Mexico and then sell them in the United States, Trump said: “They won’t be able to sell these cars if I’m elected.” Then he added: “If I don’t get elected, there will be a bloodbath overall, that will be the least, it will be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least. But they won’t sell these cars.”
Democrats: Trump wants “another January 6th”
Biden campaign spokesman James Singer condemned Trump’s “bloodbath” comment. The “loser” of the 2020 election is again threatening “political violence.” “He wants another January 6th, but the American people will hand him another election defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his propensity for violence and his thirst for revenge,” said a statement, referring to the Storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Trump and Biden have now secured the necessary delegate votes in the Republican and Democratic primaries to be sent back into the race in the presidential election on November 5th. It is already clear that the election campaign will be one of the toughest election campaigns in US history. The two are currently almost equally popular with voters. Trump was able to narrow the gap to Biden in opinion polls among non-white voters. These formed an important basis for Biden in 2020.