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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.

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[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 86 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Theyre gearing up another January 6, mark my words

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

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

[-] chetradley@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

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

[-] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 15 points 5 months ago

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@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago

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@reddthat.com 7 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

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@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago

It's almost as bad as "Latinos for Trump"

Or black people for Trump.

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

Etc.

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 61 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

V.P. Candidate Checklist:

✅ Deny 2020 election results.

✅ Deny 2024 election results in advance

✅ Kiss Trump’s ass.

✅ Lose your soul if you ever had one.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Dude gets called “Little Marco” for a months by Trump, and he’s still chortling his balls. People like him are so desperate for power that they will happily give up their self respect.

[-] normanwall@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago
[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

This is one of my favorite photos ever. Just the perfect representation of the modern Republican Party.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Nobody who ever had a soul would ever agree to be Donald's VP.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 5 months ago

obviously it's only fair if Trump wins like he says. Otherwise it's just rigged if he doesn't win

[-] orbitz@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

That's exactly how Trump thinks, whenever he calls things unfair it's just regular crap but everything is unfair if they don't get their desired outcome. The mental gymnastics are absolutely amazing with these people. If we could turn that into an energy source we could get off of oil. Likewise with their projection, though we'd need to limit the size of screen they'd produce otherwise we could only make out a nose hair at best.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 15 points 5 months ago

Hell, Trump whined that 2016 was rigged even though he won the electoral college.

[-] nnullzz@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Yeah because it’s that easy right?! Dr tells me I have cancer, I’ll just not accept the diagnosis because it’s unfair. Problem solved, cancer gone!

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Reality doesn't give a shit what you accept.

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 15 points 5 months ago

Sounds like a spoiled child

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Fuckface 45 is that shitty kid who always changed the rules of the game right as he was about to lose.

His few friends were the ones who accepted the changes and stuck around.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

"time out!"
*Runs*
"Time in!"

[-] 5wim@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

slips, trips, and falls out of the grape-stomping bucket and tumbles off the elevated platform "Ooo, oooo, ooo-"

[-] TheJims@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Marco Rubio is afraid of trump and his childish nicknames.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Dreizehn@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

The only election result the Government of Fucking Putin would accept is a 87% popular vote win like in shithole Russia.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

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

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

If you torture the data enough, it will confess.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


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.

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.

He also refused to criticize Trump for his comments on Florida’s six-week abortion ban, during which Trump called the law a “terrible thing, a terrible mistake” – despite also repeatedly claiming credit for overturning the federal protection for abortion.

“I support any bill that protects unborn human life, but I don’t consider other people in the pro life movement who have a different view to be apostate,” said Rubio, who has long pushed for strict limits on abortion.

We are not like the Democrats where, unless you are in favor of their bills that basically say, ‘Let’s just put in all this fancy language, but it’s not meaningful in terms of any restrictions.’”


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[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why not just have live voting? Mail in ballots are required to be sent and counted before Election Day and all the results are posted live. No counting, no electoral college. Just votes.

Edit: I’d love some feedback to understand the negative sentiment surrounding my comment. I think the electoral college is absolute nonsense and I think we should entirely rely on the popular vote. My statement of live voting would literally just remove the counting process and make your votes instantly visible to the public, you enter a polling station that is connected via a governmental VPN and the moment you press send it’s displayed live. If you need to mail in your vote, you do it by a deadline prior to the election.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 5 months ago

There's still loopholes in every system. Like someone hacking the stations and or the server, the losing side could claim. Another claim would be that the mail in counting could be rigged. I think live would be better than the counting method, but I'm just saying haters gonna hate regardless of the methodology.

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