This is 'clear sign' Trump will not accept midterm loss: Nobel Prize winner

Donald Trump has given a clear sign he will not accept the outcome of the midterm elections should he lose, a Nobel Prize winner has warned.

Paul Krugman believes the president will flat out refuse to accept the results of the midterms should the Democratic Party find themselves with a majority in the House and Senate. The economist, writing in his Substack, suggested Trump is already making statements that make it clear he will try to shift against the election results should they not turn out in his favor.

Krugman wrote, "Trump is now calling for 'nationalizing' the midterms, meaning to put voting and the counting of votes under his administration’s control. He can’t do that, but his demand is a clear sign that he will not accept the public’s verdict in November.

"So it’s just being realistic to say that MAGA will try, somehow, to prevent voters from having their say. Will ICE try to prevent blue districts from voting? If that fails, will they reject the results, in a midterm version of Jan. 6? Call me alarmist, but remember: The alarmists have been right, and the people telling us to calm down have been wrong, every step of the way."

Krugman went on to question whether the Trump administration had a firmer plan in mind for what ICE agents were doing in Minneapolis.

He wrote, "How do Trump, Stephen Miller, etc. think this is going to work for them? Maybe their initial belief was that a display of force would shock and awe their opponents into submission. It’s not happening, yet they just keep ramping up the threats and violence, apparently not knowing how to do anything else.

"The obvious answer is that there isn’t any strategy. These people aren’t evil masterminds — evil, yes, but masterminds, no. They’re just thugs too crude and undisciplined to control their own thuggishness.

"They were caught off guard by the strength of the resistance because the very concept of citizens standing up for their principles is alien to them, and they still can’t believe it’s real."