The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he’d accept this year’s presidential election results, regardless of who wins.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Sunday did not directly answer multiple questions about whether he’d accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, regardless of who wins.
“At the end of the day, the 47th president of the United States will be President Donald Trump,” Scott, a Republican, said the first time he was directly asked whether he would commit to accepting the election results on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
Asked again by moderator Kristen Welker to answer “yes or no?” to the original question, Scott simply said, “That is my statement.”
Pressed a third time to answer the question, Scott said, “I look forward to President Trump being the 47th president — the American people will make the decision.”
Earlier this month, Trump himself told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he would accept the results of the presidential election in Wisconsin only “if everything’s honest.”
I think any candidate that doesn’t subscribe to an elections outcome, so long as the election has a prescribed method for a redress of grievances, is automatically disqualified from being considered in said election.
Its an assumption the system makes: If you are participating in an election, you also agree that 1) an election is happening and you support that, and 2) that you will abide by its outcomes.
I don’t see how you can in good faith be participating in an election and unwilling to accept its outcome. The assumption that you will abide by its outcomes seems baked into the cake.
If any politician answers this question with anything but a simple “yes,” their answer is no.
Even if they want to make a more nuanced response, now is not the time.
I have a feeling he’d accept them if a certain someone wins
That’s almost exactly what he said. He would accept them if Trump won, and that’s his statement.
Yet another wholly owned subsidiary of Russia Inc.
The silence about this plain and obvious lie, from corporate media, is deafening.
You’d think someone would make them squeal over it but no - no, they’re just regular old election stories.
It’s so weird to me that these people, even Trump himself, can’t seem to bring themselves to lie about this. Like is this the one line they think their cult won’t let them off the hook for crossing?
They want their base to try and overthrow the government again if Trump loses. Claiming the result is going to be rigged constantly will make these people more willing to do that if the time comes. Their supporters don’t actually care if the media calls them out on it because they have a pathological victim complex, and Trump and the Republican party being criticised plays into that. And they don’t care about democracy anyway, they just want their guy to become an authoritarian king that will punish their perceived enemies.
Pull his payment and health benefits.
A man with no backbone. His answer is clearly no but he does not want the repercussions of saying it. I’m certain he doesn’t actually doubt the validity of the results either. He just knows his voters are gullible idiots.
The irony of this fuckstick sharing a name with Dredd Scott.
This guy is one of the most disgusting brown nosing senators. He will say anything if it will make trump like him. He is visibly needy and it’s just gross. Painful to watch.
