Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal this weekend suggested GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance is “a barometer for the Republican Party” with his repeated refusals to admit that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden— and Katyal warned what that may lead to in the immediate aftermath of next month’s vote.
“You know me, I’m normally a voice of calm, and I’m here not as a voice of calm today,” Obama-era Justice Department official Katyal told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.
Katyal envisioned — thanks to election result-denying comments that have been made by Trump, Vance and myriad other Republicans — a “coming massive crisis that’s going to occur” when Trump and his allies will declare victory even if Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris actually wins.
Trump and the GOP will “pressure courts, they will pressure state legislatures, they will pressure state governors and they will pressure the United States Congress to throw out the popular vote and get this election through shenanigan,” Katyal warned.
Later, Katyal asked: “If they can’t admit that they lost in 2020, what makes you think, even with an overwhelming victory by Kamala Harris in 2024, that they’ll acknowledge it?”
Watch the full discussion here: