Marco Rubio declared Sunday that he won’t settle for the outcomes of the 2024 election, a beforehand unthinkable assertion for an elected official to make that’s now principally a prerequisite for anybody hoping to be Donald Trump’s vp.
Appearing on Meet the Press, the senator from Florida was requested by host Kristen Welker if he would “accept the election results of 2024, no matter what happens,” to which he responded, “No matter what happens? No. If it’s an unfair election, I think it’s gonna be contested by each side.” Then he claimed that “Democrats are the ones that have opposed every Republican victory since 2000, every single one.” Reminded that Democrats who’ve taken problem with election outcomes have finally conceded, Rubio requested Welker if she had requested Democrats in the event that they’d settle for the election outcomes. At no level did he acknowledge that denying the outcomes of 2020 has principally turn out to be an official plank of the Republican Party—or that zero Democrats have incited a lethal rebellion as a result of they couldn’t settle for their election loss.
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Rubio, in fact, is only one of quite a lot of potential Trump working mates who’ve refused to decide to accepting November’s outcomes; others embrace senators J.D. Vance and Tim Scott, North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, and representatives Elise Stefanik and Byron Donalds. Stefanik has additionally stated that had she been vp on January 6, 2021, she “would not have done what Mike Pence did,” i.e., comply with the regulation. Meanwhile, Donalds instructed in March that he won’t settle for the outcomes of the 2028 election.
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