{"id":19277,"date":"2024-01-06T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T11:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/republicans-cast-doubt-on-whether-biden-can-win-legitimately-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-06T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T11:50:45","slug":"republicans-cast-doubt-on-whether-biden-can-win-legitimately-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/republicans-cast-doubt-on-whether-biden-can-win-legitimately-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans cast doubt on whether Biden can win legitimately in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2024-01\/240105-nikki-haley-interview-al-1241-065e22.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIf he doesn\u2019t win this time, he\u2019s going to say the same thing,\u201d DeSantis said in his interview. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what happens, he will say the same thing. That\u2019s just how he rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s a demonstration of how the 2020 election results, and the Jan. 6 attack, continue to hang over this election<strong> <\/strong>cycle\u2019s contest \u2014 even though DeSantis told NBC News on Thursday that it doesn\u2019t come up on the trail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019ve not had a single question in Iowa about Jan. 6. I mean, I\u2019ve taken hundreds and hundreds of questions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But Trump still faces legal jeopardy for, among other things, a case around whether he conspired to overturn the 2020 election results. And all the candidates have continued to get questions about whether they\u2019d pardon the former president, should he be convicted. (DeSantis, Haley and Ramaswamy have all said they would.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Voters, too, have followed the Republican<strong> <\/strong>candidates\u2019 lead in already expressing skepticism about the legitimacy of the 2024 election results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Barb Forney, 60, a Republican in Ames, Iowa, who is supporting Ramaswamy this year, told NBC News on Friday that it was \u201cnot conceivable\u201d that Biden could have a legitimate win in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt was rigged, if he wins. My honest belief is that I don\u2019t think he can win,\u201d said Connie Lendt, a 69-year-old DeSantis supporter in Woodward, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Trump has publicly embraced his supporters who found themselves in legal trouble in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, promising to pardon them and championing their cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When asked what lessons they took away from the attack on the U.S. Capitol \u2014 which left five people dead and about 140 police officers injured \u2014 the candidates had very different answers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u201cIf he doesn\u2019t win this time, he\u2019s going to say the same thing,\u201d DeSantis said in his interview. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what happens, he will say the same thing. That\u2019s just how he rolls.\u201d It\u2019s a demonstration of how the 2020 election results, and the Jan. 6 attack, continue to hang over this election &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}