Trump’s Speech Draft Had Two Optional Jokes About Not Accepting Election Results

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Despite rebukes from fellow Republicans and assurances from surrogates that Donald Trump really would accept the results of the presidential election, his campaign appears to be all-in helping him joke about the matter.

According to an advance draft of Trump’s remarks in Ohio on Thursday, speechwriters provided Trump two options for him to josh about denying the outcome on November 8. The text reads:

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