Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) in a Sunday interview urged “respect” for “our elections” because the 2024 election looms.
“We have to respect our elections, and I get it, candidates have the right to go to court and appeal, or to challenge versus … various processes,” Bacon instructed NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt in an interview on “The Hill Sunday.”
Bacon, alongside 5 different Republicans, signed onto a bipartisan letter launched in September headed up by centrists vowing to respect the outcomes of the November election.
“In America, we respect election results especially once the courts and appeals work through the process,” Bacon mentioned in a press release on the time. “We combat exhausting to win throughout campaigns after which respect the outcomes when the votes are counted.
Bacon mentioned that there must be no “reticence at all to say we’re gonna support the winner of the elections, period.”
Former President Trump’s denial of the 2020 election outcomes has returned to the headlines as Election Day has neared. In a debate in opposition to Vice President Harris final month, Trump expressed pushback towards the concept he had accepted shedding to President Biden 4 years in the past.
“No, I don’t acknowledge that at all,” Trump mentioned.
Trump’s operating mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, additionally not too long ago mentioned that the previous president didn’t face a loss in opposition to Biden in 2020 “by the words that I would use.”
“I think there were serious problems in 2020. So did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use,” Vance mentioned at a marketing campaign occasion in Pennsylvania.
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