Media Traps: NBC News Tries Gotcha Question On Rubio About Accepting The Election Outcome “No Matter What”
“No matter what happens? No! If it’s an unfair election, I think it’s going to be contested by each side”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and is making headlines across Democrat media as refusing to say he’ll “accept 2024 election results.” What is missing, however, is the context of the question. Democrat hacktivist Kristen Welker actually asked if he would accept the election results “no matter what happens.”
I’m not Rubio’s biggest fan, but he handled the question as it was posed to him as well as anyone could.
Watch:
Sen. Marco Rubio obliterates Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker when she asks "will you accept the election results of 2024 no matter what happens?" pic.twitter.com/l8SPWAjsTd
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) May 19, 2024
Of course, the Democrat alphabet media are all over this claiming that Rubio won’t commit, blah blah, invariably leaving out the key qualifier. No one in their right mind would commit to anything with a “no matter what happens” attached to it.
In their article misleadingly entitled “2024 Election Sen. Marco Rubio won’t commit to accepting 2024 election results,” NBC News reports (archive link):
Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, widely seen as a potential vice presidential pick for former President Donald Trump, on Sunday refused to say whether he would accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, instead blaming Democrats for sowing doubts about the election.
The senator, appearing on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” said, “I think you’re asking the wrong person. The Democrats are the ones that have opposed every Republican victory since 2000. Every single one.”
He added, “And you have Democrats now saying they won’t certify 2024 because Trump is an insurrectionist and ineligible to hold office. So you need to ask them.”
Rubio’s refusal to say if he would accept the results of the 2024 election is notable because he did vote to certify the presidential election for then-President-elect Joe Biden. At the time, he said, “Democracy is held together by people’s confidence in the election and their willingness to abide by its results.”
Note that they cut the parts where both Welker and Rubio include the “no matter what happens” part of this gotcha question and ask yourself why NBC News would cut from their reporting (not the embedded video) the key part of the question, the part Rubio explicitly rejects.
The New York Post reported on the full context of the question.
A feisty Sen. Marco Rubio refused to preemptively accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, arguing that he needs to see how the contest unfolds first.
Rubio (R-Fla.), who is widely rumored as a top contender to be former President Donald Trump’s vice president, underscored how Democrats cast aspersions on Republican victories in past elections.
“No matter what happens? No! If it’s an unfair election, I think it’s going to be contested by each side,” Rubio replied to NBC’s “Meet the Press Sunday” when asked if he’d accept the “results no matter what happens.”
Rubio is pushing back on his Twitter (X) feed, as well.
When will the media start asking democrats if they will accept the outcome of the 2024 election if Trump wins? pic.twitter.com/9kGf9O3sTF
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 19, 2024
Here are some selected clips of the Rubio interview.
Kristen Welker on Meet the Press: Do you support Trump’s deportation plan?
Marco Rubio: Yes. We cannot absorb 25–30M people who entered this country illegally!
Welker: Will you accept the election results no matter what happens?
Rubio: No matter what happens No!..The Democrats… pic.twitter.com/n11pgIspBi
— Eddie (@ICU1010) May 19, 2024
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NBC is the bottom of the barrel.
Oh, no. The bottom of the barrel is much better than NBC – or any of the other “legacy” media.
NBC blows the bottom of the barrel out with model rocket engines.
Shared with CBS. ABC is slightly better, but only very slightly.
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Walker, just another NBC stooge.
Welker! Damn auto correct!
Sounds like the Democrats are waiting on a wooden crate marked ACME to appear.
Beep beep
Where has this Rubio been hiding for the last few years? First Fetterman, now this. Interesting.
He thought he could get elected by
pandering tocatering to “moderate democrats.”They’ll pocket the capitulation, and back their machine candidate anyway. In the end, did Bernie Sanders get the silver he was promised?
There is a tradition, which Trump did not follow: in the US, if you lose an election by fraud, you lost. Finality is more vital than accuracy to the stability of the system. (Furthermore, as far as democracy is concerned, it doesn’t matter since a vote won by fraud will have been close anyway.)
Nixon followed that rule in the election he actually won over JFK in 1960, not contesting the Chicago vote.
The rule was first violated by Gore in 2000, though, not Trump.
Except that Gore actually lost and not by fraud.
Not sure about that. It dang, you lose your home state
Incorrect.
Gore lost because we refused to let his fraud stand.
The Democrats were manufacturing Gore votes everywhere they could right up until Bush was sworn in.
Do you think that Romney won in 2012? I go back and forth on it.
“B-1 Bob” Dornan lost his seat to vote fraud. Democrat party vote fraudsters picked us off one by one.
Then Arnold happened, and democrats decided black swan election events like that would never be allowed to happen again.
Jungle primaries and hacked voting machine software finished us off in Corruptafornia.
And then Trump happened ….
” Finality is more vital than accuracy to the stability of the system. ”
My God, you can’t parody this guy. The pretentious word-salads that spew out of this rape-apologist’s pie hole belong in a museum. No Goffman quote to really enrich us rubes, oh great intellectual?
While I dislike the guy, both the Republican and Democrat establishments act in exactly that way. They don’t care about vote fraud no matter how blatant, especially if it takes down someone they both dislike, like Trump.
Seems Trump is giving some RINOs a spine.
Yep.
I don’t know if people hated most of the media as much as I do they would be tortured by tar, feather, and rode on a rail treatment. (If anyone doesn’t know that that is not just a fun saying I suggest you read up)
What a snag she is.
12 Minutes of Democrats Denying Election Results –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2Ejqjz6TA
Did any of these people then incite an insurrection and try to subvert democracy, thought not. Its a dumb video.
The democrats have so poisoned the atmosphere around asserting election fraud that they may engage in it openly, and with complete impunity, in the key presidential election states forever more.
First, Trump voluntarily left office at noon on January 20 as required by law.
Second, there is nothing shady about legally challenging election results or even advancing novel theories. Democrats advance “novel” legal theories ALL THE TIME.
Third, as Rubio correctly points out, Democrats have challenged every Republican win the past 30 years. It is inconceivable to assume Democrats would not have challenged the results in court had Trump been declared the winner in 2020. Lawfare is what Democrats do.
That these TV morons pretend Covid was not used as a pretext to haphazardly change established processes and election and voting rules about “drop boxes”, mail in voting, “ballot harvesting”, etc. and that those changes may be resulted in illegal votes is the corruption.
May have resulted? I would say “certainly resulted”. For example, in my world votes counted without oversight would be automatically invalid. Ergo, when Republican election overseers were kicked out in numerous strategically important districts in 2020 I would have deemed every vote spoiled. Unfortunately not one judge in 2020 allowed contesting votes on this basis.
24 STRAIGHT MINUTES of Democrats denying election results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYB6N8fBKQ
no one even bothers to look up the 2008 clinton v obama primaries
talk about cheating subterfuge etc
“will you accept the election results of 2024 no matter what happens?”
This represents a false assumption.
Unfortunately, nobody ever asks the real question.
Back in the Fall of 2019 (Oct ?), the Democrats gamed the 2020 election (at MIT ?). There were reports at the time about how some scenarios had states seceding fro the union, etc.
The question is .. what did the Democrats learn in that simulation ?
I believe what they learned is that if you were to cheat, there aren’t enough laws and enough time to discover and undo the cheat.
The real question is .. is this true ?
If this is true, this means that either party, or any party can cheat and get away with it.
You mean the Socialist-Progresives will accept the results of the election if “right-wing fascists” blow up voting centers in “Democratic” strongholds during counting after the polls close?
No Matter What!