DeSantis Predicts Trump Will ‘Absolutely’ Claim Election ‘Was Stolen’ If He Loses Iowa Caucuses

Presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) told a reporter that he predicts if Donald Trump loses the Iowa caucuses or New Hampshire primary, he will “say it’s stolen no matter what.”

A reporter asked DeSantis, “Governor, do you expect the former president to accept the results, say, in Iowa or New Hampshire, given the unfounded claims about 2020?”

DeSantis replied, “If Trump loses, he will say it’s stolen no matter what, absolutely. He will try to delegitimize the results… He did that against Ted Cruz in 2016, and he will do that. I mean, even when like The Apprentice didn’t get an Emmy, he said it did. So I think I don’t think there’s been a single time he’s ever been in competition for something where he didn’t get it, where he’s accepted it. I don’t think he will do that.”

Trump had previously said that Cruz had stolen the 2016 Iowa caucuses from him, and he repeated a similar act on a larger scale in 2020 after he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden.

On the day of the 2016 Iowa caucuses, Trump tweeted, “Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he illegally stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong any [sic] why he got more votes than anticipated. Bad! He later deleted the original post and reposted it without the word “illegally.”

DeSantis added, “I don’t think there’s been a single time he’s ever been in competition for something, where he didn’t get it, where he has accepted [it]…I think that that’s to be expected, but I don’t think people are gonna buy it.”

In response, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said DeSantis “is acting out on his Lincoln Project fantasies and doing his best impression of a Never Trumper by reciting Democrat talking points peddled by Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign.”

Cheung added, “When Ron’s political career is finished in a few weeks, he can start moonlighting as a Democrat surrogate because he’s showing everyone his true colors.”

DeSantis’ campaign recently posted a thread of over 24 bizarre remarks from Trump, with the caption, “This is why handlers won’t let him debate.”

Meanwhile, DeSantis’ super PAC has been spiraling into chaos after burning through millions of dollars and firing most of its staff.