House Speaker Mike Johnson with Trump at the RNC in Milwaukee, July 17, 2024Matt Rourke/AP
Republican leaders backing Donald Trump keep declining to say clearly that they will accept the results of the November election, regardless of who wins.
The latest to sow doubts about the outcome is House Speaker Mike Johnson, who appeared on Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos posed a question that he noted Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, refused to answer in the vice presidential debate against Gov. Tim Walz: “Can you say unequivocally that Joe Biden won the 2020 election and Donald Trump lost?”
Johnson declined to answer the question and instead lambasted it as a “gotcha game.”
“You want us to litigate things that happened four years ago when we’re talking about the future,” he said. “We’re not going to talk about what happened in 2020, we’re going to talk about 2024 and how we’re going to........