Trump will only accept midterm results if elections are 'honest'

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will accept the results of the November 3 midterm elections only if they are "honest," raising doubts about the vote just one week before Election Day. The elections could end Republican control of Congress. Asked whether he would respect the outcome no matter what, Trump replied: "I'll do it, if it's a clean election." Trump has refused to acknowledge his defeat in the 2020 presidential election for six years, and his false claims about that vote led his supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He continues to question the US electoral system — the same system that put him in the White House and gave him Republican majorities in the House and Senate that he may lose on November 3. Trump is now running a campaign to cast doubt on the vote, comparing the US system to that of a country without democratic safeguards. He has tried to limit mail-in voting through an executive order that the Supreme Court has temporarily suspended, and through a bill called the Save America Act that makes voting harder and is stalled in the Senate. There is more. A court recently rejected a Republican challenge to 20,000 voters in California, where more than 20 million people are registered to vote. The White House has also filed a complaint seeking to question results in Alaska because the Republican candidate and an independent candidate have very similar names. The Republican incumbent is Senator Dan S. Sullivan, while one of his opponents is independent candidate Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. Trump's legal demand is to block official certification of the election results if the Republican senator loses by a narrow margin.