Former US President Donald Trump voted on Tuesday at a polling station in Palm Beach, Florida, accompanied by his wife, Melania, before promising reporters waiting for him that he would admit defeat “if elections are fair.”
“If I lose an election, if it’s fair, I’d be the first to admit it,” Trump said, after calling “crazy” those who had said during the campaign that he would not accept any other result than winning this presidential election.
However, the Republican candidate said he felt “very confident” for this election night and that he is convinced he will win, ruling out even the possibility that the election will be as close as the polls predict.
“I’ve heard that we’re doing very well everywhere (…) It won’t even come close,” said the former president, who has highlighted this latest campaign as the “best” of the three he has had in his aspirations to reach the White House.
Despite having shown himself convinced of his victory before the media, Trump has not missed the opportunity to protest against the American electoral system, which he has reproached for taking too long to offer the results.
For Trump it is a “very complicated process” that has led to numerous and large legal disputes being filed in recent years to question the results of the past presidential elections when it could be expedited with a ballot. “Paper is more sophisticated now than computers,” he said.
“It’s incredible. There’s nothing you can do to cheat. And it costs you practically nothing. We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these campaigns. It could be done for 8 percent of the cost and be more precise, and not be worried about when Pennsylvania would announce it. It’s a shame,” he said.
