Posted on 05/17/2021 12:08:28 PM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Monday that he accepts the results of the 2020 election, and urged Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, to focus on the upcoming midterm where the party wants to win back control of Congress.
“I accept the results of the election. ... 2020 is over to me, I'm ready to march on and hopefully take back the House and the Senate in 2022,” Graham told reporters in South Carolina.
Graham’s comments come as Trump has remained focused on the 2020 election, doubling down on his false claim that it was “stolen.” Trump’s legal team has lost dozens of challenges in court and GOP state officials along with former Attorney General William Barr have dismissed suggestions of widespread fraud, but that has done nothing to lower Trump’s rhetoric.
While Graham, who voted to certify the 2020 results in January, said he accepted the results, he added that he would endorse making changes to election laws heading into 2022, including tighter voter ID requirements.
“I think what we need to do is reform election systems. ... So I think it's smart to reform our laws to make sure you are who you are,” he said.
“I think there are a lot of people that feel like bad things happened in the election. ... But I think President Trump and the Republican Party needs to focus on election reform and the upcoming election,” he added.
Republican-controlled state legislatures have introduced and passed laws in the wake of Biden's win to place new restrictions on access to the ballot. State legislators this year have introduced 361 bills across 47 states that would restrict access to voting, according to a Brennan Center analysis.
While most Senate Republicans voted against challenges to Biden's Electoral College victory in Congress earlier this year — when a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol — they also stayed silent for week after the November election as Trump tried to cast doubt on the results in key states.
Those false claims appear to have taken hold in a significant swath of GOP voters, according to polling.
Six in 10 Republicans believe Trump's false claim that the election was “stolen” from him, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released last month. And a CBS News poll released over the weekend found that 67 percent of Republicans said that Biden wasn't the legitimate winner of the 2020 election.
Nearly half, 47 percent, also told CBS News that the party’s strategy for winning future elections should be changing voting laws.
In addition to legislation across the country, in Arizona state GOP leaders have launched an audit into the election results surrounding Phoenix, despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing.
Graham, asked about Arizona, added, “I don't know what the audit is all about in Arizona ... but I'm ready to move on.”
doesn’t matter if you do accept it, Lindsay
history does NOT
IMO, the senator is wrong. I do not live in past but if someone was murdered and I had evidence of who did it, I would want the authorities to prove it ... not forget it.
I don’t nor did the Left during the whole time Trump was President, RINOLindseyIdiot.
#notmypresident
Way to read the voters Lindseed. 90% of Repubs disagree with you and you care about the 90% of the Press Corpse.
Graham-nesty would of course, RINO that he is.
Is Lindsay speaking weasel-tongue again, thinking we don’t notice?
You can accept the election, because there’s nothing that will change it now, and still believe it was a stolen election.
I have famiy members who have said this.
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Graham is trying to lead other elected Republicans to make the same declaration, and he’s already voiced his support for Cheney.
You forgot Inhofe.
Fag
“Each state shall appoint, in such a manner as the legislature thereof may direct...”
Judicial meddling in violation of state law made the election unlawful.
Judicially-instigated Postal Service meddling in violation of state law made the election unlawful.
Election fraud in violation of state law made the election unlawful.
We have no lawful President because the election was not conducted in a constitutional manner.
Even if Joe Biden would have been lawfully elected in the absences of illegality, the election illegalities mean we have no lawful President.
“Every...vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary...shall be presented to the President of the United States...”
The United States government can’t legally pass laws.
Only a Constitutional Convention can fix the screwed up election before 2024.
“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law,...”
There might be two trillion in zombie debt right now.
We DONT !!!!
Lindsey Graham is a picture perfect reason for the 17th amendment to be repealed. He is the ultimate uniparty hack.
The fraud were they openly violated the laws... and nothing was done... and thanks to folks like Lindsey nothing will be.
WI admits nearly 100,000 mail in ballots were mailed to the wrong address... they literally have no idea who received them or filled them in.
WI Democratic counties illegally cured ballots while Republican ones followed the law.
MI Supreme court declared the changes made by the SOS before the election were completely illegal as to who can vote, how they can vote etc...
etc. etc. etc...
And that’s before you even get into the flagrant ballot stuffing etc.
Well we the 80 million Trump voters don’t accept it and won’t be voting until the 2020 election is fully investigated. Lindsay may not be good at math, but we sure are.
his false claim that it was “stolen.”
Not so fast there, buttmunch...Ask AZ how they are comin along.
Lindsay needs to be MAGA’s next ouster.
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