Zany Progressive: I edited the title of this article to clarify what really happened during an interview with Senator Tim Scott. He was asked, “Will you accept the results of the 2024 election?” Tim Scott responded with BS about how Trump will be winning the election and he’s excited to go back to low inflation, etc.
Kristin Welker of NBC’s Meet the Press repeated the question several more times, asking for a simple “yes or no” answer. He could not do it! If I was Kristin, I would have said, “So your answer is no. Regardless of who wins, you will not accept the results. In other words, you hate democracy.”
Why are reporters so afraid of calling out GOP politicians like Senator Tim Scott when what they are implying is that they no longer believe in democracy and are Fascists. Period. (Rhetorical question. I know why cable news hosts aren’t willing to do it.)
Here are more details from the Mother Jones article, “Sen. Tim Scott, a Rumored VP Pick, Backs Trump’s Election Denial” by Julianne McShane.
Mother Jones
As the November election approaches, several of Donald Trump’s vice presidential contenders have taken part in what seems to have become an unofficial loyalty test: question the legitimacy of an election that does not end with Trump winning.
On Sunday morning, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)—who NBC News reported in February was the leading candidate for the VP job—showed why he may be Trump’s favored candidate: he refused no less than six times to answer whether or not he would accept the results of November’s election no matter the outcome.
Kristen Welker, host of NBC’s Meet the Press, noted amid this line of questioning that just this week, Trump falsely claimed he won Wisconsin in the 2020 election (he lost in that state to Joe Biden by more than 20,000 votes)—which Scott voted to certify. But each time she asked, Scott dodged.
“Senator, will you commit to accepting the election results of 2024, bottom line?” Welker asked.
“At the end of the day, the 47th president of the United States will be President Donald Trump, and I’m excited to get back to low inflation, low unemployment…”
