Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee said he’s concerned that Donald Trump and GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers “are not committed to the institution of our democracy.”

Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed said his fellow Democrats need to “win by massive numbers” in the upcoming midterm elections so the result “is unquestionable.”

“Donald Trump has already threatened to do what he did in 2020, which is deny the outcomes of an election,” El-Sayed told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday.

Asked by NBC News on Saturday whether he would accept the results of the midterm elections no matter who wins, Trump said, “Of course I will. But we don’t want cheating.”

  • RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world
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    It’s crazy that the election denial was about the 2020 result since the Trump admin was in charge at the federal level and the GOP in charge in most of the Governors offices in many battleground states. They never complain when they win and always want to ignore that they are the ones running the elections they lose. Sometimes they throw out hanging chads too.

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    3 hours ago

    No matter if they lose by a landslide or just one vote the GOP will still cry foul. But let’s make it a landslide…

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    I think the democrats might want to look a little closer at this guy before everyone else jumps on his bandwagon.

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    They will of course deny it no matter what. Hell even if they win they will still accuse dems of trying to cheat but being bad it it, etc.

    The point is that winning legitimately by a lot still makes it a harder case to make in court, and a harder sell to the electorate. They can toss out some imperfect ballots, etc., to try to bump the numbers the other way – but they wouldn’t be able to easily do this at a large scale and across multiple states that reinforce a victory… Yet.

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    They barely win: Obviously they carefully crafted their rigging to barely win

    Landslide: it’s all the more suspicious that they will by a landslide.

    There is no winning on that front.