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The Guardian - US
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Anna Betts

Trump regrets not seizing voting machines after 2020 election loss

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A voter leaves a voting booth to walk their ballot over to the machines at Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine, on 3 November 2020. Photograph: Portland Press Herald/Getty Images

Donald Trump has said he regrets not getting the US national guard to seize voting machines after his 2020 election defeat ended his first presidency, as he continues to falsely claim that he won the race. But he has also questioned whether national guard troops would be “sophisticated enough” to pull something like that off.

Trump made those remarks in an interview with the New York Times published on Sunday. The outlet had questioned him about a plan reportedly floated in late 2020, after he lost that year’s presidential election to Joe Biden, to seize voting machines in several key swing states in an effort to search for evidence of fraud.

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