Trump Campaign Pushes Baseless Election Plot Claim, Calls for Cancellation of Future Debates

Two advisers to former President Donald J. Trump's campaign, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, have called on the Republican National Committee (R.N.C.) to cancel the upcoming debate and end all future debates, claiming without evidence that Democrats are working to "steal" the 2024 election. The statement follows a playbook used by Trump in previous elections, where he pre-emptively suggested that upcoming elections would be rigged against him. The R.N.C., which is formally neutral in the primary, has not responded to the request. Trust in the security of U.S. elections among Republicans has plummeted since Trump's false claims about the 2020 election, leading to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.