Republican senator’s comments come as he is considered among Trump’s top candidates for vice-president

The Republican Florida senator Marco Rubio said on Sunday he would not commit to accepting the 2024 presidential election results, insisting that “if it’s unfair” his party will “go to court and point out the fact that states are not following their own election laws”.

Rubio’s statements on Meet the Press come as he is considered among former president Donald Trump’s top candidates for vice-president. Trump has continuously said falsely that the 2020 election was stolen.

Those claims spurred the 6 January 2021 insurrection, during which participants stormed the Capitol building as lawmakers were in the midst of certifying the election results. Trump is facing a variety of charges related to alleged election meddling.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    I wish our national standards were not so low, because from a different perspective, it’s great that these people are self-identifying as power-corrupted fascists. Usually they hide it and we have to guess.

    I really cannot understand how 40% of voters see a rejection of democratic elections as a qualification to run a democracy.

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    1 year ago

    Republicans NEVER accepted election results unless THEY won.

    It’s nothing unique to 2020. It was only a big deal because of fatass Trump.

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    1 year ago

    Did you guys see Chris Sununu fully bend over backwards, collapsing his face fully into Trump’s ass cheeks to defend his endorsement despite going full 180 from his words not 2 years ago? That man should join the circus with flexibility like that.

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    1 year ago

    I wonder if he considers it unfair to have the antiquated slavery-era EC choose a candidate over the popular vote.

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    1 year ago

    The only election result the Government of Fucking Putin would accept is a 87% popular vote win like in shithole Russia.

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    Yeah because it’s that easy right?! Dr tells me I have cancer, I’ll just not accept the diagnosis because it’s unfair. Problem solved, cancer gone!

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      That’s exactly how Trump thinks, whenever he calls things unfair it’s just regular crap but everything is unfair if they don’t get their desired outcome. The mental gymnastics are absolutely amazing with these people. If we could turn that into an energy source we could get off of oil. Likewise with their projection, though we’d need to limit the size of screen they’d produce otherwise we could only make out a nose hair at best.