With false ‘coup’ claims, Trump prepares supporters to challenge Harris’ victory. Donald Trump has attempted to delegitimize Kamala Harris’s nomination and undermine confidence in this year’s election. From the moment Vice President Kamala Harris emerged as the surprise Democratic presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump began arguing that she was anointed through a “coup” rather than a coup. chosen by primary voters. After barely mentioning election integrity at the Republican convention in July, Trump cast the upcoming election as “rigged” against him and baselessly labeled any barriers. No obstacle in his path is election interference.

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“This is an overthrow of the president. This is an overthrow,” Trump said at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, referring to Harris replacing Biden on the list. He later added: “They overthrew a president. This is a coup by a president. This is a coup.” Election and national security experts say Trump’s efforts to undermine confidence in this year’s election are reminiscent of the tactics he used during the 2020 campaign and show he could continue to seek to delegitimize the results if they lose, setting the stage for another fierce battle over the presidency.

“This is Donald Trump’s playbook: ‘There’s a deep state, they all want to take me down,’” said Elizabeth Neumann, who served as a senior Department of Homeland Security official in the Trump administration and is now is one of his conservative critics, said “Even here — when he will face a stronger, harder-to-beat candidate — his default is, ‘Oh well. , this cannot be legal. This is a coup,’ even though there are no facts to prove it.”