President again refuses to commit to a peaceful transition if he loses elections

For the second day in a row, President Donald Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he not win the November 3 election.

This Thursday he said that he was not sure that the elections could be "honest", claiming once again without presenting evidence that voting by mail "is a great fraud", something that is not true.

"We want to make sure the election is honest and I'm not sure it can be

," Trump told a reporter before leaving the White House for North Carolina, where he laid out his health plan.

During a press conference on Wednesday, a journalist asked the president about the possibility of a peaceful transition of power after the elections.

"We will have to see what happens," Trump responded.

The leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, responded to the doubts that Trump had planted on Wednesday, assuring that there would be “an orderly transition, as has happened every four years since 1792”, in which the winner would be proclaimed January 20.

Senate Majority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnel on Capitol Hill;

in Washington DC on September 23, 2020. Getty Images

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Thursday morning that

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But hours later, Trump contradicted her by lashing out at the ballots again: “So we have to be very careful with the ballots.

The ballots, you know, that's a big fraud. "

Trump on Thursday cited a statement from his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, who said then-Vice President Joe Biden "should not concede under any circumstances."

However, Clinton was only referring to the night of the election, arguing that in a closed vote it would take several days or weeks for the final results to be known, as reported by

[Five falsehoods in Trump's attacks on vote by mail, which will be key in November due to the coronavirus]

Since June,

, without offering any evidence to validate his theory that those ballots are allegedly unreliable.

In an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, asked if he would accept the results of the elections whatever they were, Trump said that "it would have to do" and assured that the vote by mail "would damage the election."

[Biden says in an interview with Noticias Telemundo that he is concerned that Trump will speak of an "insurrection" if he loses the elections]

Then, in July, the president suggested postponing the elections despite the fact that he does not have the legal power to do so and that it is a 

, not even when the country was passing through the civil war or while in the middle of World War II.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House before leaving for North Carolina on September 24, 2020.

Mitt Romney, a Republican senator from Utah and who frequently criticizes Trump, wrote on Twitter: 

wrote giving the example of the European country that is going through a political crisis in the face of the complaint. election fraud by President Alexandr Lukashenko, who was not recognized as a legitimate winner by the United States.

"Any suggestion that a president may disrespect this constitutional guarantee 

," Rommey added.

[Biden says in an interview with Noticias Telemundo that he is concerned that Trump will speak of an "insurrection" if he loses the elections]

On the side of the Democrats there were also responses to the president's

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"President Trump: You are not a dictator and the United States will not allow you to be one," wrote Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York.

Lower House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was not surprised: "You are not in North Korea, you are not in Turkey. You are in the United States. 

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With information from The Associated Press, NBC News and