House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday dismissed concerns that President Trump might decline to concede defeat in the election, even if he has clearly lost, calling Mr. Trump’s personal conduct irrelevant to the legal transfer of power in January.
Ms. Pelosi, who told reporters last week that she was confident Joseph R. Biden Jr. would win the presidency, said in an interview she was not worried about any sore-loser behavior on the part of the Republican incumbent.
“Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president of the United States on Jan. 20,” Ms. Pelosi said. “I don’t have any anticipation that this president will act in a way that is, for the first time, presidential — and why would I care?”
As a legal matter, Ms. Pelosi is right: A defeated president has no power to forestall his exit simply by refusing to acknowledge that he has lost an election. While Mr. Trump has threatened to file lawsuits after voting is over, his campaign has not articulated what that actually means, nor has it laid out any legitimate basis for his relentless attacks on the integrity of the voting process.
Still, Mr. Trump’s behavior has raised a sense of alarm — and not only among Democrats — about the possibility that he could deliberately stoke political divisions and even civil disorder after Election Day, in an effort to cast doubt on a disappointing result.
In the interview, Ms. Pelosi did not appear to share that worry, though she allowed that Mr. Trump might conduct himself irresponsibly after the election. Instead, she stuck to her oft-stated view that the president’s incendiary conduct should mostly be regarded as a sort of tantrum, arising from political and personal weakness.
“You’re introducing a whole new notion to me here, that I would care about something that he does,” Ms. Pelosi said. “Do I care that he concedes? I don’t know that he’s capable of conceding.”
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