Sen. Murphy on whether Dems will accept election results: ‘Are you kidding?’
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) strongly pushed back on the suggestion that Democrats would respond to a hypothetical Harris-Walz defeat on Tuesday similarly to the way former President Trump's supporters fought back in 2020.
"I mean, are you kidding? January 6 is in our rearview mirror," Murphy said in an interview on NewsNation's "The Hill Sunday" with Chris Stirewalt when asked whether there is any concern about Democrats accepting the election results.
“Have we forgotten what happened on January 6? Have we forgotten the fact that Trump has spent the last four years celebrating that violence, not a single apology? He's promised if he's president to pardon the people who tried to kill us in the Capitol that day, who tried to hang Mike Pence.”
Murphy said Democrats would be upset if Harris lost but flatly denied the possibility of Democrats rejecting the election results.
“Donald Trump has telegraphed, loud and clear, that he has no apologies for his supporters' attempt to try to install him in power, despite the fact that he lost the election, and he is setting up a narrative by which he is not going to accept this election either,” Murphy said.
"So are Democrats going to be mad and upset if Donald Trump wins? Of course. Are we going to lead an assault on the Capitol to try to overthrow democracy? Absolutely not. And I think, you know, the idea that there's some equivalency between democrats being, you know, very worried about a Trump presidency and Donald Trump having helped lead a violent insurrection against democracy and promising to pardon anybody who carries out acts of violence on his behalf, is probably not entirely accurate."
The latest polling ahead of Election Day shows that Trump and Vice President Harris are locked in a close race, including in some of the key battleground states.
In the national polling average from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, Trump leads Harris by 0.2 percentage points, 48.3 percent to Harris’s 48.1 percent.
The polling averages in Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia show Trump leading Harris by approximately 1-3 points. Trump leads Harris by an average of less than 1 point in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and Michigan has Harris leading by an average of 0.2 points.
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