Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) got into a debate with NBC host Kristen Welker over whether to accept the 2024 election results “no matter what happens.”
“Whatever happens? No! If it’s an unfair election, I think each side will fight,” Rubio said.
Mr. Welker repeated the same question to elicit more answers from the Florida Republican, leading Mr. Rubio to say, “You’re asking the wrong person. It’s the Democrats who have opposed every Republican victory since 2000.” “Every time,” he replied. ”
Rubio backs Trump’s deportation plan, retracts previous statement calling it an invasion of the country
Sen. Marco Rubio fired back at NBC’s Kristen Welker over the 2024 election results. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images. (Photo by William B. Plowman/NBC via Getty Images).)
Welker went on to play footage of Rubio certifying the 2020 election, before questioning the senator about the public’s ability to certify this year’s election results. “Democracy is supported by people who have confidence in elections and a willingness to abide by their results,” Rubio said in a 2021 video.
The NBC host asked, “By your own definition, do Donald Trump’s claims undermine Americans’ faith in democracy?”
“What ruined the election was that in 2020 NBC News and every major news outlet in the country censored the Biden laptop article and it turned out to be true…talk about it on social media “They won’t even be able to do that, and they’ll destroy the platform,” Rubio said.
When asked, “Really?”, the ABC host said he couldn’t believe Rubio would serve as Trump’s vice president.
NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 2: Immigrants gather outside the Roosevelt Hotel, where dozens of recently arrived migrants are camped out trying to secure temporary housing on August 2, 2023 in New York City. Migrants, many from Central America and Africa, are sleeping on the streets or in other shelters as the city continues to struggle with an influx of migrants that surged this spring and summer. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Rubio’s sentiments were echoed by South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who was interviewed on “Meet the Press” earlier this month.
“If everything is honest, we are willing to accept the consequences. If not, we must fight for the rights of the country.” Scott told NBC.. “At the end of the day, the 47th president of the United States will be President Donald Trump.”
House Republican rivalry fuels tough primary season
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio questions Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the State Department’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposal at the Dirksen Senate Building on Wednesday, March. 22, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Rubio, a potential running mate to former President Donald Trump, was also asked about his support for the former president’s plan to use the military to deport illegal immigrants.
“We can’t accept 25, 30 million people who came into this country illegally. They’re here illegally. What country would tolerate that?” he told Welker. “We’re going to have to do something drastic to get people out of this country who are in the country illegally, especially people who don’t know anything about it.”
Rubio added: “This is not immigration, this is mass immigration, this is an invasion of our nation.”
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