Bacon urges 'respect' for election
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) in a Sunday interview urged “respect" for "our elections” as the 2024 election looms.
“We have to respect our elections, and I get it, candidates have the right to go to court and appeal, or to challenge versus … various processes,” Bacon told NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt in an interview on “The Hill Sunday.”
Bacon, alongside five other Republicans, signed onto a bipartisan letter released in September headed up by centrists vowing to respect the results of the November election.
“In America, we respect election results especially once the courts and appeals work through the process,” Bacon said in a statement at the time. “We fight hard to win during campaigns and then respect the results when the votes are counted.
Bacon said that there should be no “reticence at all to say we’re gonna support the winner of the elections, period.”
Former President Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results has returned to the headlines as Election Day has neared. In a debate against Vice President Harris last month, Trump expressed pushback toward the idea that he had accepted losing to President Biden four years ago.
“No, I don’t acknowledge that at all,” Trump said.
Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, also recently said that the former president didn’t face a loss against Biden in 2020 “by the words that I would use.”
“I think there were serious problems in 2020. So did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use,” Vance said at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.
NewsNation is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which also owns The Hill.
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