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Election security updates: Officials prepare for Election Day under a cloud of threats
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Election security updates: Officials prepare for Election Day under a cloud of threats

At former President Donald Trump’s final campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Republican presidential candidate urged his supporters to go to the polls while again calling into question the security of the electoral process.

On multiple occasions throughout Trump’s speech, he told his supporters to go to the polls “tomorrow.” However, since the rally took place after midnight, people in the crowd began shouting “today” and then Trump falsely said that the election would take place on Wednesday.

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump gestures after a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena on November 5, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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“It sounds a lot better when you say tomorrow, Wednesday,” Trump said. “But that’s okay. I want to be exactly accurate for them, but go out today and vote. And I guess seven o’clock or whatever, whatever time it is, it doesn’t matter, and we’re going to have the best victory in the history of our country.” country.”

Trump then suggested his supporters could be to blame if he doesn’t defeat Vice President Kamala Harris.

“There’s nothing they can do” if Republicans turn out to vote, Trump said of his opponents. “In other words, to make you feel a little guilty, we would only blame you.” Trump later claimed he has the “silent majority” and urged his supporters to “speak up.”

The former president also once again questioned the security of voting machines, despite officials and experts confirming the security of the electoral system.

“Maybe I’ll be president in less than 24 hours, or maybe I’ll need these machines we paid so much for for two weeks,” Trump said, claiming that ballots would be cheaper, faster and more secure.

“What the hell is going on inside those machines?” continuous. “If you wait, we want the answer tomorrow, tonight,” Trump said, quickly correcting himself. “We want the answer tonight.”

“You have to cheat,” Trump said of the Democrats. “Who the hell is going to approve those things? Who is going to prove that there are open borders with millions of criminals coming into our country now that they have to cheat. They have to cheat, and they do it, and they do it very well, in fact”. “

-Lalee Ibssa, Soo Rin Kim and Kelsey Walsh of ABC News