Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

Trump or No Trump, Elections Have Been Stolen

The Republican candidate's critics ignore two centuries of disputed presidential races.

October 19, 2016 at 6:37 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

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If Donald Trump loses the presidential race, I hope that he will concede and move on. That’s what democracy demands. But the current histrionics over his insistence that the process is rigged against him are overblown.

We’ve been here before, and the republic has survived. In fact, we have been there recently. I have friends who to this day insist that Al Gore actually won the 2000 presidential election.