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DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter Donald Trump refused time and time and time again to commit to upholding our democracy and the will of the voters during tonight\u2019s debate, Doug Burgum hopped on the airwaves to do the same. Burgum has already refused to commit to accepting the results of the next election, and tonight he doubled-down on Trump\u2019s reckless election denialism as part of his commitment to Trump\u2019s extreme anti-democracy agenda. Just like the rest of Trump\u2019s VP contenders, Burgum is ready and willing to push Trump\u2019s dangerous attacks on our democracy and sell out our basic values as Americans if it helps him join Trump\u2019s losing ticket in November.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Trump VP contender Doug Burgum defended his baseless election denial lies tonight and joined him in refusing to accept this November\u2019s election results.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savannah Guthrie, NBC<\/a>: \u201cOne of the last things [voters] remember, of course, is January 6, the president losing the election, but claiming he didn\u2019t, people rioting at the Capitol, here he was again tonight asked point blank, \u2018If you lose the election, will you concede?\u2019 And he just doesn’t answer the question directly. He’s always hedging it with if it’s free and fair. And of course, the implication is it’s not free and fair, if he’s not the winner, why don’t you just come right out and say, of course, I’ll accept the results of this election?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum: \u201cWell, I think you heard him say that at the end, it would be easier for him if everybody thought we had secure elections. But we know in our country, being a democracy, this is a challenge.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guthrie: \u201cThat\u2019s just a red herring, because I mean, he got to litigate it. He had the advantages of our democracy, and our courts and every other institution, which found that it was a free and fair election, and yet, he’s still on about that. And he won’t say that he’ll accept the results of this election. I just don’t get that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Burgum: \u201cWhen you’ve got unmonitored documents that don’t have any control over the path of that document, you don’t know where it came from, you don’t know where it’s been, that would never pass any kind of audit from, you know, a quarterly audit from a public company. So I think we all want the same thing in America whether it’s the 2000 election, which was challenged to do down in one county in Florida, the \u201816 election, which people claimed there’s Russian interference, the 2020 election, I mean, three of our last five elections, either the different parties had been saying there was concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum has refused to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election, and dodged when asked if Mike Pence did the right thing on January 6, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cBurgum, like other contenders, has declined to comment on whether he would accept the 2024 election results.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howard Kurtz, Fox News<\/a>: \u201cDo you think the 2024 [election] outcome will be contested<\/strong> as well?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum: *Refuses to answer* <\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s been a stronghold of Democrats to be concerned about election integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaitlan Collins, CNN<\/a>: \u201cIf you were Trump\u2019s vice president on January 6, would you have done what Mike Pence did? Do you think that Mike Pence did the right thing that day?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum: *refuses to answer*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes<\/a>: \u201c[Burgum] claimed Sunday Democrats were buying votes in the 2024 election \u2018at a scale like we have never seen before\u2019 after Trump accused his opposition party of using welfare to influence voters and cheat in elections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum<\/a>: \u201cIn 2016, this network and many other challenged the results of the election\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Tapper, CNN: \u201cWe never challenged the results of the election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:  \u201cAfter Donald Trump refused time and time and time again to commit to upholding our democracy and the will of the voters during tonight\u2019s debate, Doug Burgum hopped on the airwaves to do the same. 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