When you lose, you accept the outcome according to Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary. Stephen Colbert asked the official from the Biden administration about the number of Republican candidates questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election after Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden. One of the most important principles in democracy is that when you lose, you accept the result. I've had to do that. Losing is not as enjoyable as winning. Both have been done by me.
October 25, 2022.
We expect the same thing from citizens when it comes to policy decisions. The process for getting decisions that all of us have to live by is one of the things that makes a democracy work.
It is only fair that the people who make the policy choices have to live with the outcome of which one of them is in charge. The bargain works that way.
A Washington Post analysis found that a majority of Republican nominees on the ballot for House, Senate and statewide offices in the November election have denied or questioned the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The Post said that most of the Republican election deniers will win.
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