“That’s the only way we’re going to lose — because [Democrats] cheat.”

That startling charge came from former President Donald Trump at a Wisconsin rally in September.

It was no one-time riff by Trump.

“They’re going to cheat. They cheat. That’s all [Democrats] want to do is cheat,” he said at another rally last month. “It is the only way they’re going to win. And we can’t let that happen…we’re going to have no country.”

NBC reported last week that Trump has hammered this theme of Democrats cheating in the election in “14 of his last 20 rallies.” And he still refuses to admit he lost the 2020 election.

In October, he told Joe Rogan, the star podcast host, that he “won” the 2020 “election so easily.”

He was cheated, he told Rogan, by “old-fashioned ballot-screwing,” despite the reality that his own attorney general and judges in more than 50 cases brought by Trump allies found no evidence of election fraud.

Trump’s lie about election fraud was echoed at his Madison Square Garden rally when Tucker Carlson, the former cable television host and Trump ally, dismissed the idea that Vice President Kamala Harris could ever legitimately defeat Trump.

“It’s going to be pretty hard to look at us [ Trump loyalists] and say ‘You know what? Kamala Harris …got 85 million votes because she’s so impressive as........

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