Tim Scott refuses to say whether he'll accept the results of the 2024 election

[Ancestral Republican]

"Moderate Republican"

Who thinks of Scott as moderate?
He is a better fit for his state than Trump and can appeal better to the "swing voters / moderates" of his state (which includes rigth leaning blacks that don´t trust much the republicans) but that doesn´t make him a moderate.

There was once a time, before Trump arrived and dumped all over this country, that Scott was seen as the future of the Republican Party. A future that was younger, more racially diverse, more socially moderate, etc. South Carolina oddly had several of these politicians. Scott, Haley, Gowdy, and Graham to name a few.

Those days are done.

MAGA destroys everything it touches. It is a political movement that is toxic, unhinged and unattractive to anyone mentally stable under the age of 60.

On that imminent, blessed day when Donny boy chokes on his last Big Mac, Tim Scott will be left holding the empty bag and vying to be the king of the sh**t heap: flagbearer for a party that's mostly unviable outside of the great American emptiness.

[Ancestral Republican]

"Moderate Republican"

Who thinks of Scott as moderate?
He is a better fit for his state than Trump and can appeal better to the "swing voters / moderates" of his state (which includes rigth leaning blacks that don´t trust much the republicans) but that doesn´t make him a moderate.

There was once a time, before Trump arrived and dumped all over this country, that Scott was seen as the future of the Republican Party. A future that was younger, more racially diverse, more socially moderate, etc. South Carolina oddly had several of these politicians. Scott, Haley, Gowdy, and Graham to name a few.

Those days are done.

MAGA destroys everything it touches. It is a political movement that is toxic, unhinged and unattractive to anyone mentally stable under the age of 60.

On that imminent, blessed day when Donny boy chokes on his last Big Mac, Tim Scott will be left holding the empty bag and vying to be the king of the sh**t heap: flagbearer for a party that's mostly unviable outside of the great American emptiness.

Really, though? The first time I heard about Tim Scott was during his first run for Congress in 2010, when he beat Strom Thurmond's son in the GOP runoff. Like most new Republican candidates running in safe House seat that year, Scott ran as a "Tea Party" Republican. Nikki Haley also ran in a competitive primary that she probably would have lost without the support of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party (and the blog Red State, whose influence has declined so much from that era it's laughable). Trey Gowdy was a Tea Party Republican who unseated the "moderate" Bob Inglis in a landslide. And the Tea Party hasn't been relevant in years now since the GOP has moved so far to the right that most of those same people who ran as Tea Party supporters are hailed as moderates today.

The only person in that group who wasn't considered "Tea Party" is Graham, and he still moved further right so that enough Republican voters would at least tolerate him come primary day.

Oh yeah, politically they really weren't moderate. People just associate young Republicans with being more moderate. Even Graham's "maverick" image was a facade. But there was once hope that these people would put a more attractive face on conservativism.

[Ancestral Republican]

All of which is beside the point.

If the 2024 Presidential election is free and fair, but does not result in a win for the Republican nominee, will Republicans accept the result, or attempt to seize power by fraud and force?

I don't expect them to, and Senator Scott's answer strongly implies he, at least, will not.

Republicans will never accept, under any circumstances, a Joe Biden victory, as legitimate.

They didn't accept it in 2020, so why would they in 2024?

Democrats have not accepted a Republican victory since 1988.  Democrats objected to the electoral college results in 2000, 2004 and 2016 lol   

Token virtue-signaling is not the same thing as a violent coup attempt. Be serious.

Neither Trump's actions to dispute the election results nor the Capitol riot were "violent coup attempts."  Get a life.

Del Tachi 🤝 Fuzzy Bear

Downplaying terrorism they were cheering on at home

[Ancestral Republican]

All of which is beside the point.

If the 2024 Presidential election is free and fair, but does not result in a win for the Republican nominee, will Republicans accept the result, or attempt to seize power by fraud and force?

I don't expect them to, and Senator Scott's answer strongly implies he, at least, will not.

Republicans will never accept, under any circumstances, a Joe Biden victory, as legitimate.

They didn't accept it in 2020, so why would they in 2024?

Democrats have not accepted a Republican victory since 1988.  Democrats objected to the electoral college results in 2000, 2004 and 2016 lol   

One out of three, and no riots occurred. Do better

And (arguably more importantly) there were no slates of fake electors from Democrats trying to steal the election the day of Congressional certification.

For all of 2021 and into 2022, the subject of the DOJ's investigation was the Capitol riot itself and not the two-months Trump spent trying to dispute the election beforehand.  Trump's lobbying of state legislators, organizing of "alternate" elector slates in key states, and pressuring of Mike Pence to accept them all happened in plain sight and were reported by journalists in real time.  They were not a criminal conspiracy.   

LOL. Wow.