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    Michigan Trump supports a question about accepting the election result

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    Novi – Supporters of Republican Donald Trump said Saturday they are confident the former president will win the Michigan election, but are deeply concerned about persistent and unproven claims of widespread voter fraud.

    Trump told a crowd at a rally inside the Suburban Collection Showplace convention hall in Oakland County that if he wins Michigan, he will “win the whole deal,” 10 days before the Nov. 5 presidential election.

    Four years ago, Trump lost Michigan to Democrat Joe Biden by 154,188 votes, or 3 percentage points, 48%-51%. The Republican then refused to accept the result and claimed, without evidence to back up his claims, that systemic fraud had swayed the race, igniting protests, litigation and mistrust that affected the electoral process.

    Asked in a series of interviews Saturday if they would accept the outcome of the upcoming Michigan election if Trump loses, some of his most vocal supporters gave vague answers at the Novi rally. Isaiah Goddard, a member of the United Auto Workers in Dearborn, said he’s still waiting to see what happens.

    “That’s why I want to be a challenger in the polls on Election Day,” Goddard said when asked if he would believe a Trump loss in Michigan.

    Meanwhile, Goddard, who works at Ford Motor Co.’s Rawsonville plant, said he is “very confident” Trump will win on Nov. 5.

    However, public polls have shown a neck to neck race between former President and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for Michigan’s 15 electoral votes this fall. In 2016, Trump won Michigan against Democrat Hillary Clinton 10,704 votes, or 0.2% of the total total of votes in the state.

    Throughout this year’s campaign, Trump has continued to refer to unproven claims of fraud regarding his 2020 loss to Biden. During his only debate with Harris, Trump said he still doesn’t want to accept the 2020 election.

    In Michigan, Trump’s loss was supported by bipartisanship billboardsa series of court decisions and an investigation by a Republican-controlled Michigan Senate Oversight Committee.

    “Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people,” Harris said during the debate in September. “So let’s be clear about this. And clearly, it’s very hard for him to process that.”

    During his June debate against Biden, when Biden was still the Democratic nominee, Trump said he would accept the outcome of the upcoming election if it was “a fair, legal and good choice.”

    More: Trump encourages early voting in Michigan, labels system ‘ridiculous’

    More: 145,000 Michigan voters cast ballots on the first day nationwide for early voting

    On Saturday, state Rep. Matt Maddock, R-Milford, an ardent Trump supporter, said he believed Trump would win on Nov. 5 and then made an unsubstantiated claim about Democratic cheating.

    “I think we’re over the 300,000 fraudulent votes the Democrats are going to cast,” Maddock added.

    Asked where the 300,000 votes came from, Maddock said it came from “experts”, including people associated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, who was sued for defamation by election technology company Dominion Voting Systems.

    Asked whether he would question the results if Trump loses on Nov. 5, Maddock replied, “I think we should always question the results.”

    His wife, former Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock, said people won’t have to debate whether to accept the election results.

    “There is an overwhelming energy for Trump and Trump will win,” she said.

    Meshawn Maddock said hundreds of Republican poll workers have been recruited and 300 of them will work at Huntington Place, where absentee ballots are counted in Detroit.

    “I’m not going to report it to The Detroit News,” Meshawn Maddock said when asked what he would look for to determine if the election is fair.

    Meshawn Maddock was one of the 16 Michigan Republicans whose signatures appeared on a certificate in December 2020 that falsely claimed Trump won the state’s 16 electoral votes. Trump’s political and campaign advisers used fake voter certificates from battleground states an unsuccessful attempt to overturn his loss to Biden in Congress.

    Anthony Whipkey, a 43-year-old Trump supporter from St. Clair Shores, said she will cast her ballot early before Election Day and before “any kind of funny business.”

    “The last election, we were hoping for that red tide, and with all the funny business going on, it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to. But I really think he’s going to win,” Whipkey added of Trump. .

    Whipkey said he was referring to issues with voting machines and how Trump was leading in early results but losing when the final ballots were counted.

    Standing behind the Suburban Collection Showplace, former U.S. Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Milford, made the highly unlikely prediction that Trump would win all 50 states.

    Asked if he would accept a Trump loss in Michigan, Bentivolio told a reporter, “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

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