Adam Schiff says Trump has ‘more reason’ to challenge election results in 2024

Trump has claimed multiple times since leaving the White House that he did not lose the 2020 presidential election to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, with Schiff predicting a similar reaction from Trump should he lose the 2024 election to Vice President Kamala Harris. Ahead of next month’s election, the former president was embroiled in several legal disputes on the campaign trail, something Schiff was referring to when predicting Trump’s possible challenge to the 2024 election results.

“He has more reason to challenge it than he has before, not because of any electoral error, but because Donald Trump believes, and perhaps with good reason, that if he doesn’t succeed at the ballot box, he might succeed.” Prison,” Schiff said on NBC Meet the press. “So he will question the results and we saw, tragically, what happened when he did that four years ago. And on top of that, we see him laying the same groundwork to fraudulently challenge the results once again by telling the same big lies he spread four years ago.”

Schiff was one of many Democrats who called on Biden to suspend his re-election campaign after the first presidential debate and also suggested Harris could win “overwhelmingly” against Trump. When asked if he was still convinced that was the case, he argued Harris could still claim victory even though the race is currently “scaryingly close.”

Earlier this month, a key file from special counsel Jack Smith was unsealed by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. In it, prosecutors allege Trump responded “so what” when told on Jan. 6 that then-Vice President Mike Pence was in danger. 2021. Schiff argued that the timing of unsealing this file about a month before the 2024 election was appropriate because of the reluctance of the Supreme Court to decide whether former presidents enjoy immunity.

Schiff was then asked why he supported the timing of unsealing Smith’s file despite previously being critical of FBI Director James Comey, who reopened the investigation into presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails shortly before the 2016 election had recorded. The California congressman defended his stance, saying Comey’s “unilateral” decision to investigate Clinton was “a very different circumstance” than the unsealing of Smith’s file.

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Legal analyst Jonathan Turley warned that the timing of this filing could “backfire” on prosecutors in the case. He also said Smith’s briefing was an attempt “to make his final election argument to voters, knowing that the 2024 election will be the largest jury verdict in history.”

Trump argued Thursday that federal charges related to his alleged efforts to interfere in the 2020 election should be dismissed, citing the Supreme Court’s Jan. 6 ruling on rioter Joseph Fischer. The rioter’s conviction under an obstruction law was overturned by the Supreme Court, with Trump’s legal team arguing that the same law was misapplied in Smith’s federal case against the former president.