US election results: Is Donald Trump fearing defeat against Kamala Harris?

Much of the outside world's focus during the 2024 US election has been on what victory for Donald Trump might look like, but many Americans are fretting about the opposite outcome -- including some of his most vocal opponents, as per AFP report.

The Republican ex-president, who is in a dead heat with Democrat Kamala Harris in the race for the White House, has never acknowledged the legitimacy of his election defeats -- from the 2016 Iowa primary to his presidential contest in 2020.

His denialism deeply polarized the country last time around, and his continued attempts to sow distrust in US democracy have sparked fears of a repeat of the violence seen during the 2021 storming of the US Capitol.


Trump's rap sheet demonstrates that it is not beyond him to try to cheat in elections.

He has 34 felony convictions for a scandal involving covered-up payments to silence a porn star he feared was about to wreck his 2016 campaign with a salacious story about a sexual encounter.

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And he has been indicted twice and impeached twice over alleged efforts to steal or otherwise cheat in the 2020 election, which he still has not conceded.

Rejected by the American people four years ago, Trump and his allies flooded the zone with bogus claims of irregularities and fraud.

Trump's critics worry about a repeat of the violence that resulted from those lies -- a deadly riot by an angry mob summoned to Washington by Trump, pumped up by his claims of voter fraud and sent marching on the Capitol.

Especially since he's at it again.

"If I lose, I'll tell you what, it's possible because they cheat. That's the only way we're going to lose -- because they cheat," the 78-year-old told rally-goers in Michigan last month.

Trump has been dusting off the same baseless concerns over the legitimacy of vote counts, foreigners voting, the reliability of mail-in ballots and much else.

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The ex-president and his allies set the stage for the 2021 riot through legal means -- more than 60 lawsuits largely complaining about the way state and local authorities had changed voting rules to take account of a raging pandemic.

But they lost every substantive case, with judges ruling that objections to election organization should have been lodged long before the first ballot was cast.

Republicans hit the ground running this time around, filing more than 100 lawsuits before early voting began about every aspect of the election, from how Americans register and cast ballots to who can vote.

Many of the suits seek to limit access to the polls and most will be unresolved by Election Day, but experts say this plays into distrust over vote-counting that Trump and other conspiracy theorists have spent years exacerbating.

FAQs

Q1. When is US election 2024?
A1. US election 2024 will be held on November 5.

Q2. Who are contesting in US election 2024?
A2. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are contesting on the US election 2024.