Sen. Tim Scott dodges on whether he would accept 2024 election results

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott connected Sunday did not straight reply aggregate questions astir whether he'd judge nan results of nan 2024 statesmanlike election, sloppy of who wins.

"At nan extremity of nan day, nan 47th president of nan United States will beryllium President Donald Trump," Scott, a Republican, said nan first clip he was straight asked whether he would perpetrate to accepting nan predetermination results during an question and reply connected NBC News' "Meet nan Press."

Asked again by moderator Kristen Welker to answer, "Yes aliases no?" to nan original question, Scott simply said, "That is my statement."

Pressed a 3rd clip to reply nan question, Scott said, "I look guardant to President Trump being nan 47th president — nan American group will make nan decision."

Scott ran for president past year, challenging Trump for nan Republican nomination. He dropped retired successful November and yet endorsed nan erstwhile president.

Now, he's widely considered to beryllium connected nan shortlist for Trump's vice statesmanlike pick.

But pursuing nan 2020 statesmanlike election, erstwhile Trump questioned nan integrity of nan predetermination and baselessly alleged that elector fraud took spot successful states crossed nan country, Scott offered a different tone.

Ahead of nan Jan. 6, 2021, legislature convention to certify nan statesmanlike predetermination results, Scott said, "The President’s ineligible squad exercised its correct to entree nan courts by initiating suits successful authorities and national courts successful galore states. Some of these lawsuits person moreover been presided complete and adjudicated by blimpish judges nominated by President Trump. Thus far, nary justice, judge aliases truth finder has recovered grounds indicating nan predetermination results successful those states should beryllium overturned."

He added, “As I publication nan Constitution, location is nary constitutionally viable intends for nan Congress to overturn an predetermination wherein nan states person certified and sent their Electors," and later voted to certify nan results of nan statesmanlike election.

Even later connected nan run trail, Scott disagreed pinch voters who claimed nan 2020 predetermination was stolen.

"I do not judge nan predetermination was stolen. I do judge that states created a caller system, mail-in ballots, that did not person signature verification," Scott said during a run arena successful June successful Davenport, Iowa.

After questions astir "cheating" successful nan predetermination from an assemblage member, Scott added, "There was cheating, but was nan predetermination stolen? There’s a difference. I deliberation each predetermination there’s cheating."