All the Republicans who have signaled they won’t accept 2024 election results

A number of Republicans have indicated that they may not accept the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.

The race is all but certain to be a rematch of the 2020 contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which ended with a clear victory for the Democrat but that Mr Trump refused to accept.

The Republican’s denial sparked months of legal challenges, menacing phone calls, and rampant, baseless conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines and lost ballots in support of a spurious narrative that the election was “stolen”.

The feverish atmosphere boiled over on 6 January, 2021 when a mob of Trump’s MAGA supporters stormed the US Capitol, engaging in violent clashes with law enforcement while lawmakers assembled to certify the results fled the legislative complex.

Mr Trump has already alleged that November’s vote may be “rigged”, effectively laying the groundwork for further denialism should he lose again.

Trump allies like JD Vance and Lindsey Graham have said they will accept the outcome of the election — so long as it’s “fair” — a number of fellow Republicans have declined to make a similar commitment. Here’s a look at the Republicans who have signalled they won’t accept the results.

Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz got into a tense exchange with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after the host asked him point blank whether he’d accept the results of the 2024 presidential election during an interview on 22 May.

The Texas senator called the question “ridiculous”, then went on to argue that there was voter fraud in 2020, even if it wasn’t enough to change the outcome of the election.

“If the Democrats win, I will accept the result but I’m not going to ignore fraud regardless of what happens,” Mr Cruz also said.

In the same interview, he