Marco Rubio Says He May Not Settle for the 2024 Election Outcomes, As a result of That’s a Requirement of Potential Trump VPs Now

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 vice chairman.

Showing on Meet the Press, the senator from Florida was requested by host Kristen Welker if he would “settle for the election outcomes of 2024, it doesn’t matter what occurs,” to which he responded, “It doesn’t matter what occurs? No. If it’s an unfair election, I believe it’s gonna be contested by both sides.” Then he claimed that “Democrats are those which have opposed each Republican victory since 2000, each single one.” Reminded that Democrats who’ve taken concern with election outcomes have in the end 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 change into an official plank of the Republican Get together—or that zero Democrats have incited a lethal rebellion as a result of they couldn’t settle for their election loss.

Rubio, in fact, is only one of a variety of potential Trump operating 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 mentioned that had she been vice chairman on January 6, 2021, she “wouldn’t have executed what Mike Pence did,” i.e., observe the legislation. In the meantime, Donalds recommended in March that he won’t settle for the outcomes of the 2028 election.

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