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.

  • @p5yk0t1km1r4ge
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    Theyre gearing up another January 6, mark my words

      • @chetradley
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        57 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        187 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          67 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            107 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.

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    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.

    • Jesus
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      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.

        • @chase_what_matters
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          47 months ago

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

    • @barsquid
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      Nobody who ever had a soul would ever agree to be Donald’s VP.

  • @[email protected]
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    obviously it’s only fair if Trump wins like he says. Otherwise it’s just rigged if he doesn’t win

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

  • @nnullzz
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    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!

    • @JeeBaiChow
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      Apropos, because the Rs are pretty much a cancer on the nation and it’s people.

  • themeatbridge
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    247 months ago

    Reality doesn’t give a shit what you accept.

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    • @PunnyName
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      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.

        • swim
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          slips, trips, and falls out of the grape-stomping bucket and tumbles off the elevated platform “Ooo, oooo, ooo-”

  • @[email protected]
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    127 months ago

    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.

  • @TheJims
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    Marco Rubio is afraid of trump and his childish nicknames.

  • @Fedizen
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    87 months ago

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

  • @JeeBaiChow
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    87 months ago

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

  • snownyte
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    Republicans NEVER accepted election results unless THEY won.

    It’s nothing unique to 2020. It was only a big deal because of fatass Trump.

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