Marco Rubio says he would not accept 2024 election results ‘if it’s unfair’

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.

Fedizen,

Guy putting his thumb on the scale: “nobody better put their thumb on this scale!”

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

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

Mastengwe,

News flash: to them, it’ll only be fair if they win.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

And their rampant voter suppression makes it unfair by default.

JeeBaiChow,

Surprised none of them have said the constitution should be followed, as long as it’s convenient to their ends.

TheJims,

Marco Rubio is afraid of trump and his childish nicknames.

themeatbridge,

Reality doesn’t give a shit what you accept.

RememberTheApollo_,

And he gets to pick which data supports his desired outcome.

Mossheart,

If you torture the data enough, it will confess.

MamboGator,
@MamboGator@lemmy.world avatar

Now ask him if he would consider any election where republicans lost to be “fair.”

toiletobserver,

Would he like a wah-burger to go with his French cries?

p5yk0t1km1r4ge, (edited )
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Theyre gearing up another January 6, mark my words

nova_ad_vitum,

Only if Trump doesn’t win. Then it’s not necessary.

chetradley,

Even if he wins the EC, he’ll still question the popular vote results.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/776ab701-9bbb-461a-83a2-e91d6ea2bf82.png

CaptnNMorgan,

I don’t think they’ll even need to. The Dems are tired and the repubs are amped up. Trump is probably going to win this election as fucked up as that is.

Captainvaqina,

You’re sorely mistaken if you think We The People are not AMPED to send these filthy trump traitors scurrying back to the prison cells they would be graced to inhabit alive.

CaptnNMorgan,

My family in law are a very intellectual thinking kind Jewish family but for some dumb fucking reason they are trump supporters. I’m voting out of fear but I don’t think there is enough of us.

phoenixz,

Jews for Hitler!

gravitas_deficiency,

It baffles me that more Jewish people don’t understand that they’re going to be targeted by the MAGA crowd, because they largely share a common cause with neo-Nazis. It’s super fucking obvious, and they refuse to see it.

CaptnNMorgan,

It’s almost as bad as “Latinos for Trump”

gravitas_deficiency,

Or black people for Trump.

Or homosexuals for Trump (yeah, that is a thing, I don’t get it either).

Etc.

snausagesinablanket,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

As if it would matter to anyone.

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein,

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.

homesweethomeMrL,

Hey hey let’s give Little Marco a break, okay - he’s very dehydrated!

lennybird,
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Dreizehn,
Dreizehn avatar

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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