Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, expressed hope that former President Donald Trump will accept the election results even if he loses, CNN reports.
On Tuesday, when Walz was asked by reporters before boarding his flight from Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., whether he believed Trump would concede the election if he lost, Walz said he believed that. If “history … is any indicator” Trump will concede.
Walz also pledged to “join hands and work for the winner” if Harris loses.
The statement comes amid concerns over possible disruptions to the electoral process, including bomb threats at polling sites in several states.
According to CNN, Trump and other Republicans repeatedly suggested that they would accept the results of the presidential election if there was no evidence of fraud. Trump spread false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election under the pretext of attempting to overturn the election results.
According to CNN, Walz said he had not spoken to Harris in the past 24 hours, but praised her comments at her final campaign rally in Philadelphia on Monday.
Meanwhile, talking about bomb threats at various polling locations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday (local time) said that it appears that bomb threats at polling locations in several states have originated from Russian email domains. . According to CNN, the FBI said none of the emails were credible threats.
“The FBI is aware of bomb threats directed at polling places in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. So far, none of the threats have been found to be credible,” CNN said, quoting the agency’s statement.
U.S. intelligence officials were investigating an email account using a Russian Internet domain as a possible source of non-credible bomb threats leading up to Tuesday’s election in Georgia.
According to CNN, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that multiple non-credible bomb threats briefly disrupted voting at two polling sites in Georgia.
“We have heard some threats that were of Russian origin. I don’t know how to describe it in a way that’s viable — we don’t think they are, but in the interest of public safety, we always investigate it, and we’re going to investigate that,” Raffensperger said. “We will continue to be very responsible when we hear about things like this,” he said. “We identified the source and it was from Russia,” CNN quoted him as saying.
The presidential race between Harris and Trump is becoming tighter, with more states functionally tied in the election at this point than in any comparable election. More than 77.3 million people have voted ahead of Election Day on Tuesday, more than half of the total cast in 2020.
The battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are expected to be key to victory.
Harris and Trump are tied with three votes each in the small New Hampshire community of Dixville Notch, which opened and closed its polls just after midnight ET in accordance with a decades-old tradition.
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