The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he’d accept this year’s presidential election results, regardless of who wins.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Sunday did not directly answer multiple questions about whether he’d accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, regardless of who wins.
“At the end of the day, the 47th president of the United States will be President Donald Trump,” Scott, a Republican, said the first time he was directly asked whether he would commit to accepting the election results on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
Asked again by moderator Kristen Welker to answer “yes or no?” to the original question, Scott simply said, “That is my statement.”
Pressed a third time to answer the question, Scott said, “I look forward to President Trump being the 47th president — the American people will make the decision.”
Earlier this month, Trump himself told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he would accept the results of the presidential election in Wisconsin only “if everything’s honest.”
I don’t think this culture of “if my person doesn’t win, the election was rigged” bs is going to stop with Trump. I think this is just the beginning of the enshittification of politics and elections and idiocracy for running the country.
In 20 years I expect we will see entire seasons of reality TV shows during election years with the candidates as guest, smearing each other and trying to top each other with the more outrageous false information possible, with the winner each season becoming the president.
Kari Lake is already pulling the same schtick in Arizona, other repugnicans have tried as well all across the country, so no definitely not going away anytime soon.
As long as there is 0% chance of consequences, and more than 0% chance of possibly flipping an election, they will keep trying. Every election will become this shit show very quickly. There is literally no reason for it not to.
At this point I just feel like America deserves whatever happens to us. Our problem is obvious and won’t be prevented. We have successfully completed the Roman Empire any% speedrun, it’s time to pack it up before we get ourselves a Caligula.
I hold out hope that we can destroy and then rebuild ourselves, like how Germany has done for example. But those hopes aren’t high and they’re unlikely to come to fruition during my lifetime. We need to wipe the American political slate clean and start over from scratch but that’s never ever going to happen until after the existing government literally collapses under its own weight. It will require the complete and total death of America as a nation, in order to save America as a nation. I wish luck to future generations. Me, I’m moving to Australia or Korea before it all hits the fan.
I’ve always felt our problems are multifaceted. What is the problem in your opinion?
Our leaders care more about personal enrichment than they care about leading a nation. The problems are multifaceted, but I feel like most of them tie back to that and if that were to somehow change most others of our problems would follow.
Unfortunately I don’t know how to change it. I can only sit here and watch it happen.
Ah, greed. Yes, it definitely is up there as one of the primary evils causing many of the problems we face today.