Top Republicans are putting conditions on accepting the outcome of the election in November.
Republicans apparently haven’t cast aside the possibility of overturning another election.
At least two top GOP lawmakers have felt the need to add caveats to statements affirming that they’ll embrace the outcome come November, including the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham.
“Will you accept the results of the 2024 election no matter who wins?” prompted MSNBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker on Sunday.
“Yeah, I’ll accept them if there’s no massive cheating,” Graham said. In the same breath, Graham specified that he “accepted 2020” as a measure of his commitment to accepting election outcomes, even though he clearly hasn’t let go of the outcome enough not to buy in a little to his party’s election interference scandal.
This is the politically correct tactic and why it was so hilarious to watch Tim Scott fall on his fucking face. If you’re a politician and potentially want to deny an election you don’t respond to “Will you accept the election?” with “No”… that’s fucking dumb - you say “Yes, unless it’s not a true election.”
I was hoping the idiots would continue to repeat the dumbass non-committal response because it’s obviously dumb… this line is harder to rhetorically attack since obviously nobody wants to accept a rigged election - in theory you don’t even want to be seen doing that if you won… you always want to accept a fair election you won.
So, TL;DR this is the logical argument I expected them to reach much earlier - it is the stance that political operatives on the dem side should be preparing to refute and hopefully they can pick this bullshit apart by tying Graham’s hands on what he considers cheating… it’s a weak argument though and, honestly, we’ve just got to be prepared for one of our two major parties being a bad actor in this election.