‘Republicans will not be voting’ in 2022 & 2024 unless 2020 ‘election fraud’ is solved, Trump says

Donald Trump’s latest statement has confused some as it appeared to call for Republicans to refrain from voting in 2022 and 2024 if the presidential “election fraud” in 2020 is not “solved.”

“If we don’t solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in ‘22 or ‘24,” Trump declared in a public statement. “It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.”

Trump still encouraging Republicans to sit out elections pic.twitter.com/ujGFNaom5g

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 13, 2021

The former president has maintained that the 2020 election was fraudulent, though this has not yet been officially confirmed or proven in a US court of law. 

Calling on Republicans not to vote in 2024 confused many on social media as Trump himself could be running for office again. He has not said whether he will run again or not, but he has teased that he’s made a decision.

Some critics mockingly agreed with Trump’s idea of having Republican voters stay home for both the midterms and the next presidential election.

I'm ok with no Republicans voting in 2022 or 2024. They were all going to lose anyway. https://t.co/DlGoKTqPNh

— Katie S. Phang (@KatiePhang) October 14, 2021

Well, all right then . . . https://t.co/ci5xEOgWao

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 14, 2021

Others compared the discouragement to vote to the situation with Georgia’s runoff elections late last year, when Republicans lost two essential Senate seats after an election where discussion about alleged fraud in the 2020 presidential election was still prominent among conservatives. 

Trump was effective at depressing Republican turnout in Georgia's runoff election, & I assume he would be effective at depressing Republican turnout in 2022 & in his own reelection campaign in 2024. https://t.co/v6CRCF8d4y

— Derek T. Muller (@derektmuller) October 13, 2021

Trump is now calling on Republicans not to vote — declaring “Republicans will not be voting in ‘22 or ‘24” if his election fraud hoax is not “solved” first. He helped Republicans lose two Georgia Senate seats in January. Now he seems ready to try it again in the midterms. pic.twitter.com/ARBnsfwmzJ

— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) October 13, 2021

In a separate statement released on the same day, Trump went on to blast the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot and said they should be looking at the election instead. 

“You cannot study January 6th without studying the reason it happened, November 3rd,” Trump said. 

The riot at the Capitol was preceded by a nearby rally where Trump and others continued to say the results of the election were fraudulent. 

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While he had called on Republicans not to vote earlier, he later said he looks forward to the Republicans who don’t support him and his claims being voted out of office soon and being replaced by competitors, “with my complete and total endorsement.”

“Hopefully, each one of these cowardly RINOs, whose names will be identified and forthcoming, will be primaried, with my Complete and Total Endorsement, in the upcoming election,” he wrote. 

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