Trump renews baseless claims of election cheating, pairing 2020 lies with fresh threats

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : He said that while the election system has been tested heavily in recent years -- including by Trump and his followers, who have faced criminal charges for trying to subvert the last election -- it has shown itself to be "actually quite strong and resilient.""Voters should know they can trust our elections, their votes are safe, and we will have results we can trust after Nov. 5," he said.
43% : In addition to the federal case, Trump also was charged by Georgia prosecutors with trying to subvert the election there.
39% : Trump then "resorted to crimes to try to stay in office," Smith alleged in a filing last month.
35% : Trump and his allies went to great lengths to find proof of substantive election fraud or irregularities in 2020 but failed, and state elections officials, independent elections experts and most Americans agree today that Biden's victory was legitimate.
32% : Trump has called the cases against him bogus, and Smith's case in particular a "SCAM.
28% : In a Friday post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump wrote that there was "rampant Cheating and Skulduggery" in 2020; that he and his allies are watching closely for similar problems in the current race; and that, if he wins, those involved in such "unscrupulous behavior" will be "sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.
28% : "Trump is doubling down on setting the groundwork to question and try to overturn the election if it doesn't go his way," Lakin said.
20% : "In his post Friday, Trump advised people to be "aware" that those facing "legal exposure" in his supposed crackdown would include lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters and "corrupt election officials.
16% : Some experts said Trump's remarks were particularly brazen given it is Trump and his supporters who have been credibly accused of trying to overturn an election, including by storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
14% : Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is still pursuing a case against Trump for alleging taking part in a sweeping criminal conspiracy to not just deny the 2020 election of President Biden, but also subvert it.
7% : The filing detailed how Trump allegedly conducted a "pressure campaign" targeting Republican leaders, election officials and election workers in states he had lost to change the outcomes there; personally set into motion and monitored a plan to send fake slates of electors to Washington to cast state electoral votes for him instead of Biden, who had won them; and continued his "stream of disinformation" on Jan. 6 by falsely suggesting then-Vice President Mike Pence could unilaterally halt the certification of Biden's victory.

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