US Republican candidate Donald Trump said he would admit defeat “if the election was fair”, while continuing to express concerns about electronic voting machines. According to AFP, he declared: “If I lose an election, if it is a fair election, I will be the first to recognize it… So far, I think it has been fair. »

Trump reiterated his previous criticism of electronic voting machines, suggesting they were less secure than paper ballots and would delay revealing the result.

“They’re spending all this money on machines… If they used paper ballots, voter ID, proof of citizenship and voting in one day, it would all be over by 10 p.m. It’s crazy.” , he said. told reporters in West Palm Beach, cited by AFP.

He said paper is watermarked so it’s hard to “cheat” and paper is more “sophisticated” than computers.

When asked if he feared unrest after the election and if he would call on his supporters to avoid violence. He said: “I don’t need to tell them there won’t be violence. Of course there won’t be violence. My supporters are not violent people.”

Republican Donald Trump won the electoral vote tied to Nebraska’s vast, rural 3rd District on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. The former president easily defeated Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris in the most conservative of the state’s three districts, spanning 80 counties and two time zones. The district is also one of the most conservative in the country and supported Trump by about 3 to 1 in 2016 and 2020. The last time the district voted for a Democrat to represent it in the House of Representatives was It was 1958.

The Associated Press declared Trump the winner at 9:25 p.m. (local time)