Sam Harris on 2020 Election Steal: Denies

The claim: The 2020 US presidential election was stolen from Trump.

2022-08-18: “Nothing I said on that podcast was meant to suggest that the Democrats would have been right to commit election fraud or take other illegal measures to deny Trump the presidency (nor do I think they did that).” source
2024-11-11: “We are returning a man to the Oval Office who, as a sitting president, would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power, and who tried to steal the 2020 election, all the while claiming it was being stolen from him.” source
2024-11-11: “how about realizing that there was nothing significantly wrong with our election system in the first place, and that all these concerns about fraud were lies , coming from your candidate and his surrogates?” source
2024-12-05: “we now have elected to a second term a former president, now future president, who as sitting president wouldn’t commit to a peaceful transfer of power and clearly trying to steal an election, the 2020 election, all the while claiming it was being stolen from him.” source
2024-12-05: “Trump and his enablers in the Republican Party have consciously rigged our society to explode, and they were clearly not going to accept the results of the election had Trump lost” source