Former RNC Chair: Trump 'afraid of losing,' most important thing to him 'is his ego'
Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele sharply criticized former President Trump’s inability to admit he lost the last presidential election and said he’s afraid of losing the upcoming one in November because it will hit the most important thing to him, his ego.
“Donald Trump is afraid of losing, because it strikes at the core of the thing that’s most important to him, and that’s his ego, and he doesn’t want to do the work to actually win," Steele said on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” “He wants to goad and cajole and bully people into believing something about our [electoral] system because he is too weak of a man to actually go out and campaign like any other normal candidate who would go out and campaign.”
Steele’s comments follow an interview with the former president, who declined to commit to accepting Wisconsin’s November election results. Trump said he would “gladly accept the results” of the election “if everything’s honest.”
Steele countered, saying that U.S. elections are secure. Looking historically, Steele said, if Trump thinks out of all of the past elections, the only one that is “the least honest and the most corrupt” is the one he lost. It “just shows the fallacy of what the man is laying out there,” Steele added.
Trump falsely claimed to The Milwaukee Journal in the interview that he won Wisconsin in 2020, doubling down on the incorrect claims that there was widespread voter fraud in the state and others.
He’s repeatedly declined to commit to accepting the election results, dating back to the end of the 2020 race. Even after the violence that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump has wavered about if he will accept the results this fall, when he will go head-to-head with President Biden for the second time.
Steele said that if Trump loses again, it’s not because the system is rigged, “it’s because more people voted against you than for you and our electoral system confirms that.”