Democrats Refusing To Say They'd Accept a Trump Victory Aren't Helping

Election 2024

Eric Boehm | 10.11.2024 4:30 PM

Former President Donald Trump's refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and Sen. J.D. Vance's (R–Ohio) signaling that he'd have gone along with Trump's efforts to reverse the outcome are both reprehensible and undemocratic. Democrats have rightfully used that behavior to make the case that Trump and Vance ought not to be trusted with the awesome powers of the executive branch.

But you know what doesn't help to make that argument stick? Democrats also refusing to give clear answers about whether they would accept the results of an election.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D–Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told Axios that he would accept the........

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