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

A worrying number of prominent Republicans have indicated in recent interviews that they may not accept the outcome of November’s US election.

The next presidential race is already 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 that the incumbent refused to accept.

Mr Trump’s denial sparked months of farcical legal challenges, backroom plotting, menacing phone calls, and rampant but baseless conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines and lost ballots in support of the beaten candidate’s utterly spurious narrative that the election was “stolen” from him by fraud on a massive scale.

The feverish atmosphere of that moment eventually boiled over into the events of 6 January 2021 when a mob of Mr Trump’s Mega supporters stormed the US Capitol, engaging in violent clashes with law enforcement while lawmakers who had assembled to certify the results fled the legislative complex in fear for their lives.

The billionaire businessman, now seeking a belated second term in the White House, has already warned that November’s vote may also be “rigged”, as he sees it, effectively laying the groundwork for further denialism should he lose again.

While Trump allies like JD Vance and Lindsey Graham have said they will accept the outcome so long as it is “fair”, a number of their fellow Republicans have declined to make a similar commitment, some of whom – not entirely uncoincidentally – are understood to be in contention to be Mr Trump’s running mate and are therefore keen to curry favor.

Here’s a look at the Republicans who have said something other than an unequivocal “yes” when asked if they would accept whatever transpires on 5 November.