WASHINGTON Despite facing decades in prison for the fallout from his last round of lies about the 2020 election, Donald Trump is already claiming again without any evidence that the 2024 election will be stolen from him, too.

At one campaign event after another, the former president claims that Democrats are already scheming to steal the election from him, and that the only way to stop them is to win so overwhelmingly to make it impossible for them to get away with it.

We have to stop them from cheating in elections, because if we dont win this next election, 2024, I truly believe our country is doomed, Trump said during a particularly dark campaign speech in Waco, Texas, in March.

They rigged the 2020 election, and now theyre trying to do the same thing all over again by rigging the most important election in the history of our country, the 2024 election, he said in a video released Aug. 30 from his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

And, in a new milestone, two of his well-regarded campaign advisers put out a statement under their own names repeating Trumps baseless claim as the reason the party should essentially end the 2024 primary and declare the coup-attempting former president the winner.

The Republican National Committee should immediately cancel the upcoming debate in Miami and end all future debates in order to refocus its manpower and money on preventing Democrats efforts to steal the 2024 election, wrote Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, both Republican consultants with decades of experience working for a variety of mainstream candidates.

Neither Wiles nor LaCivita responded to HuffPost queries about their choice to repeat Trumps baseless claim. Former colleagues from the GOP political world said it was yet another example of Trump dragging people down to his level.

Prolonged exposure to Trump is injurious to intelligence and fatal to principles, said Mac Stipanovich, a longtime Republican consultant in Florida. It is like a disease. You are exposed to it, become infected and succumb to it. The people I know who I once thought well of who have now lost their minds are legion. Its depressing.