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=== Concerns about the refusal to accept defeat === {{further|Republican reactions to Donald Trump's claims of 2020 election fraud}} [[File:2021 storming of the United States Capitol DSC09426-2 (50813677883) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|upright|Signs reading "Stop the Steal" and "Off with their heads", photographed on the day of the January 6 attack]] Many commentators and scholars (such as [[David Leonhardt]]) have expressed alarm at the "growing movement inside one of the country's two major parties—the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]—to refuse to accept defeat in an election".<ref name="Leonhardt-NYT-17-9-22">{{cite news |last1=Leonhardt |first1=David |title=DEMOCRACY CHALLENGED 'A Crisis Coming': The Twin Threats to American Democracy |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/17/us/american-democracy-threats.html |access-date=September 20, 2022 |date=September 17, 2022}}</ref><ref name="V-Dem-2022">{{cite web |title=Democracy Report 2022 Autocratization Changing Nature? |url=https://v-dem.net/media/publications/dr_2022.pdf |website=V-Dem |access-date=September 20, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Homans-NYT-19-7-2022">{{cite news |last1=Homans |first1=Charles |title=How 'Stop the Steal' Captured the American Right |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/magazine/stop-the-steal.html |access-date=September 20, 2022 |date=July 19, 2022}}</ref> In a survey by journalists (of the [[Washington Post]]) less than two months before the 2022 congressional election, a "majority of Republicans" in "important battleground" election campaigns, refused "to say they will accept the November election outcome".<ref name="Knox-19-9-22">{{cite news |last1=Knox |first1=Olivier |title=Meet the Republicans who might not accept defeat in November |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/19/meet-republicans-who-might-not-accept-defeat-november/ |access-date=September 22, 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 19, 2022}}</ref> Six key Senate and gubernatorial Republican party nominees refused to commit to accepting the results of the November election: [[Blake Masters]] in Arizona, [[JD Vance]] in Ohio, Rep. [[Ted Budd]] in North Carolina, [[Kelly Tshibaka]] in Alaska, [[Tudor Dixon]] in Michigan and [[Geoff Diehl]] in Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Epstein |first1=Reid |title=Echoing Trump, These Republicans Won't Promise to Accept 2022 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/politics/trump-republicans-midterm-election-results.html |access-date=September 22, 2022 |date=September 18, 2022}}</ref> While the claim by a losing candidate that they won "despite clear evidence he lost", may have started with Donald Trump after his loss in 2020, during primaries leading up to the November 2022 general election, "candidates across the country have refused to concede—even in races that are not remotely close".<ref name="FOWLER-npr-2-7-22">{{cite news |last1=Fowler |first1=Stephen |title=These candidates lost badly, but now are claiming fraud |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1109442956/these-candidates-lost-badly-but-now-are-claiming-fraud |access-date=September 22, 2022 |publisher=NPR |date=2 July 2022}}</ref> This trend has been manifested in the violent [[January 6 United States Capitol attack|January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol]] to prevent the certification of [[Joe Biden]] as president and the hundreds of elected Republican officials throughout the United States that said that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged", some of whom "are running for statewide offices that would oversee future elections, potentially putting them in position to overturn an election in 2024 or beyond".<ref name="Leonhardt-NYT-17-9-22"/> According to [[Yascha Mounk]], "There is the possibility, for the first time in American history, that a legitimately elected president will not be able to take office".<ref name="Leonhardt-NYT-17-9-22"/> In part the phenomenon is international, democracies are struggling in other parts of the world led by the forces of "digital media, cultural change, and economic stagnation in affluent countries".<ref name="Leonhardt-NYT-17-9-22"/> Leonhardt states that "many experts point out that it is still not clear how the country will escape a larger crisis, such as an overturned election, at some point in the coming decade."<ref name="Leonhardt-NYT-17-9-22"/>
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