2024 presidential election live updates: Kamala Harris to reunite with Michelle Obama in Michigan; Trump will visit NYC on Sunday

Former President Donald Trump sat down for the Joe Rogan podcast for three hours Friday night for a freewheeling conversation about issues ranging from the economy to the environment to the stakes of the upcoming election, taking the opportunity to reassess 2020, blaming in part on judges. for not overturning the 2020 election results.

Trump became combative with Rogan when Rogan asked why Trump didn’t release comprehensive evidence of the fraud he says took place in 2020. Trump said he did, but falsely claimed he lost to that the judges “didn’t have what it takes”.

“The judges don’t want to touch it. They’d say you’re not right,” Trump said. “They didn’t rule on the merits. They ruled that the merits never got there. The judges didn’t have what it took to hand over the election.”

Trump once again pushed for one-day voting and paper ballots, spreading fears about voting machines as people head to the polls.

“Right now, we have a sophisticated machine going up to heaven. It’s going all over the place, down and around, and they’re saying we’re going to need two weeks to figure out who the hell won the election,” Trump said. “Unless you have paper ballots, it can never be a fair election. That’s a big statement. We should go to paper ballots.”

Trump also said that if Harris loses the election it will be because of Democrats who did not hold primaries and chose Gov. Tim Walz as his vice president.