'Little Marco' Responds to Question About Accepting Election Results

Monday, May 20, 2024

Senator Marco Rubio became the latest Republican to raise eyebrows over answers about accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election after an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning.

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"I've listened to Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, et al.: Apparently, a refusal to say you'll accept the election results is a sine qua non in the Republican Party now. If you said you would accept them, you would be a heretic. This is a disturbing pass," he wrote.

Nordlinger added:

"Since 2016, many, many politicians and media figures have transformed themselves. I know of no transformation more dramatic than Marco Rubio's. Lindsey Graham? He'll be whatever you want him to be, on any given day. But I thought there was more of a 'core' to Rubio (I admit)."

"Rubio and Scott are pushing the single greatest threat to democracy: unfounded lies on election integrity. Why? To suck up to Trump. Rubio knows better than to copy dictators like [Venezuela's Nicols] Maduro, but he's spreading DANGEROUS lies on TV. They know what they're risking. They DON'T. CARE," Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democrat running against Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, posted on X."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-19 07:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

So, it seems to be...

"If we lose, then the election was rigged against us."

Have I summarized the GOP viewpoint correctly?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-19 07:27 PM | Reply

"You Are Correct, Sir!"

(best Ed McMahon voice)

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-19 07:29 PM | Reply

This attitude is so incredibly damaging to our democracy it cannot be underestimated.

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-05-19 07:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

@#4 ... This attitude is so incredibly damaging to our democracy it cannot be underestimated. ...

Yeah, but if you reside in the alternate universe espoused by the right-wing "news" channels, and, e.g., believe the apparent lies of FoxNews, how can you form any other opinion?

Serious question.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-05-19 08:11 PM | Reply

Every time - and I mean, every darn time - I see or hear Marco Rubio (or even just of him - one word, a Spanish term, instantly pops into my noggin:mamon. (There's an accent over the "o" so it comes on mam-own.) In slang, that's a conceited, dumbarse -----------. And that, mi amigas y amigos is Marco Rubio.

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-05-20 05:45 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

He had a great question to the moderator, "have you ever asked a Democrat the same question?" How about Hillary who said 2016 was stolen and Trump was an illegitimate president. How many Democrats have said the same?

#7 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-05-20 01:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Let's talk about what it means to "accept" election results:

Was Hillary in a position to vote on the 2016 election results?
Was Marco in a position to vote on the 2020 election results?

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-05-20 01:16 PM | Reply

Um... Dems have a record of accepting election results, even if it's after legal debate.

Rethugs have a record of conspiring to create Fake Electors to substitute for State Certified Ballots, and of sending a violent mob to the WH to try to change the results of an election.

Those two things are not the same.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-20 01:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"How about Hillary who said 2016 was stolen and Trump was an illegitimate president. "

More half truths turned into lies.

Democrats did not question the actual counting of ballots in 2016.

Democrats questioned Trumpy's involvement with Putin and Russia's involvement in our elections.

We are still questioning that.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-05-20 01:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Um, maybe it's just me, but it seems that many elected officials are now calling into doubt their most recent electoral victories. How is it that so many OTHER states have fouled up elections, but the pol's HOME STATE election are clean as a whistle? So then--Did Brian Kemp, Kristi Noem, Li'l Marco, MTG or barmaid Barbie REALLY win their respective elections? Asking for puzzled voters...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2024-05-20 01:55 PM | Reply

"Democrats did not question the actual counting of ballots in 2016."

Well, many of them did question the constitutional way the votes are counted (electoral vs popular) and used that as one of the bases to call him illegitimate. Of course, the actions of the sore losers in 2016 doesn't in any way excuse the way the sore losers have behaved since 2020.

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-05-20 02:47 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Why do the media or media personalities rarely have the courage to push the issue and ask for legitimate evidence of the voter fraud Republicans seem so sure happened?

#13 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-05-20 03:08 PM | Reply

Well, many of them did question the constitutional way the votes are counted (electoral vs popular) and used that as one of the bases to call him illegitimate.

#12 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

Liar!

Yes, while some people, including me, have suggested that the Electoral College should be eliminated, there were NO court cases questioning the legality of the Electoral College in 2016. But Republicans have been screaming that Dems committed wide spread fraud every day since 2020. Even as almost all evidence points to Republicans committing any fraud. Trump/supporters have even lost several court cases over it.

It's actually Republicans who hate fair elections, because they know when voting is fair and easy they can't win.

#14 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-05-20 03:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

------- MAGAT liars.

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-05-20 09:26 PM | Reply

Democracy requires at least two political parties devoted to the rule of law and the American Constitution. In America today, we only have one party devoted to democracy, the other is devoted to disempowering the poor and elevating the rich to god status.

#16 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-05-21 06:24 AM | Reply

As long as Democrats keep trying to steal elections through fraud via illegal shenanigans nobody should accept election results. When they stop doing that we can accept them again

#17 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-05-21 03:16 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Whatsleft,

In the MAGA mindset complaining at all about the outcome of an election or about the electoral college is basically the same thing as a fake electors plot and a multistate legal effort to disenfranchise voters and install an unelected buffoon as opposed to the actual winner.

#18 | Posted by anton at 2024-05-21 03:28 PM | Reply

"Liar!"

------.

It's obvious that I'm condemning Trumpers more than the Democrats in this case and went out of my way to point out that one party's behavior does not justify the other's. But let's cut the crap that one party is almost purely good compared to the other.

#19 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-05-21 04:47 PM | Reply

This attitude is so incredibly damaging to our democracy it cannot be underestimated.
#4 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

No it's the attitude that elections can't be contested in court that is "damaging to the democracy".

The journalist asked a trick question, "Will you accept the results no matter what happens?".

It's absurd, because she doesn't specify what "results" mean?

I would hope even you wouldn't accept the "results no matter what happens".

Why would anyone accept results, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.

#20 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-05-21 05:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

But let's cut the crap that one party is almost purely good compared to the other.
#19 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

We wouldn't be here otherwise.

#21 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-05-21 05:13 PM | Reply

- one party is almost purely good compared to the other.

It's usually the same party that is the lesser evil.

That's what's being said here.

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-21 05:26 PM | Reply

#22- "Liar!"

#23 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-05-21 07:35 PM | Reply

Do the quotes mean you are talking to yourself... again?

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-21 09:02 PM | Reply

If Trump had won in 2020 the left would still be in court. They spent 4 years trying to get Trump out of office because they said he stole the election and was illegitimate. So in other words STFU.

#25 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-05-22 01:41 PM | Reply

If Trump had won in 2020 the left would still be in court. They spent 4 years trying to get Trump out of office because they said he stole the election and was illegitimate. So in other words STFU.

#25 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Alzheimer's huh? Sad to see.

The left spent years trying to get Trump out of office for flagrantly breaking the Law and violating the Constitution.

Go tell the doc to up your meds.

#26 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-05-22 02:03 PM | Reply

The left spent years trying to get Trump out of office for flagrantly breaking the Law and violating the Constitution
- psychofant.

Wild this has never been proven.

But still a talking point.

If it was as flagrant as you claim it shouldn't have been a problem to get him removed or put behind bars

Trump is the most investigated man in the history of man. Yet all the great minds could come up with is novel application of laws that no one has used in decades.

I mean seriously if what you said was true they wouldn't have been so desperate.

#27 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-05-22 02:41 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

INut, the truly desperate Troll.

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2024-05-22 02:57 PM | Reply

Trump is the most investigated man in the history of man.

Only second to Hunter Biden.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-05-22 02:59 PM | Reply

"Wild this has never been proven."

Just like OJ.

#30 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-05-23 07:31 AM | Reply