Sentences with phrase «to accept the results of the election»
Local Democrats are using some of Donald Trump's statements to attack local Republicans, saying candidates on this year's ballot should be distancing themselves away from a man who says he may not accept the results of the election if he loses.
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«Though it came halfway through the debate tonight, I think the definitive moment of the evening, of the election, of the American experiment came when Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump if he would accept the results of the election on November 8,» Colbert said.
Nene Sakite appealed to all parties contesting this year's presidential and parliamentary elections to gracefully accept the results of the elections and to conduct themselves in a way to guarantee the peace of the country.
The Gambia, following elections last year, is expected to inaugurate a new president on January 19, but President Jammeh who lost and earlier accepted the results of the elections has now rejected the results.
So nobody should be surprised by the big headline out of Wednesday night's debate: that Trump would not commit to accepting the results of the election if he loses.
Trump's son Eric also cited the Washington Post report in an October interview with ABC after he was asked whether his father would accept the results of the election if he lost.
«We are relying on the Supreme Court to play its role... other than that it will not augur well for all of us if people refuse to accept the results of an election; it has happened in several places in Africa and elsewhere,» he cautioned.
«We plead that if there is no major incident, at the end of the day people should be able to accept the result of the elections.
I do find it amusing that both the Obama administration and the Hillary campaign said this is what Donald Trump supporters would do, refuse to accept the results of the election.
He writes, «If the losers are unwilling to accept the results of elections and work within the democratic system toward the next election, then the alternative taught by human history is violence.