ABC This Week interviews for 2022 races: on Government Reform


Mike Rounds: 2020 election was fair; we simply did not win the presidency

Q: What do you say to Republicans who believe the election was stolen?

ROUNDS: While there were some irregularities, there were none of the irregularities which would have risen to the point where they would have changed the vote outcome in a single state. The election was fair, as fair as we have seen. We simply did not win the election, as Republicans, for the presidency. And moving forward we have to refocus once again on what it's going to take to win the presidency.

Source: ABC This Week 2022 interview of Sen. Mike Rounds Jan 9, 2022

Mike Rounds: 2020 election was fair, we simply did not win the presidency

Q: What do you say to Republicans who believe the election was stolen?

ROUNDS: While there were some irregularities, there were none of the irregularities which would have risen to the point where they would have changed the vote outcome in a single state. The election was fair, as fair as we have seen. We simply did not win the election, as Republicans, for the presidency. And moving forward we have to refocus once again on what it's going to take to win the presidency.

Source: ABC This Week 2022 interview of Sen. Mike Rounds Jan 9, 2022

Ron Wyden: Protect voting rights with early voting, mail-in ballots

Sen. Amy Klobuchar said, "While President Trump was in the White House ordering a mail-in ballot people in Wisconsin are standing in garbage bags with masks, standing in line having to choose between their health and their right to vote. Now nearly 20 of them are sick, including a poll worker. We can't let that happen in November. That's why Ron Wyden and I are pushing for our bill with the support of civil rights groups, to keep pushing to make sure that we have both vote by mail and early voting."
Source: ABC This Week on 2022 Oregon Senate race Apr 26, 2020

Stacey Abrams: Ensure everyone trusts the system, and it's worthy of that

ABRAMS: I think it's always dangerous to undermine the integrity of elections without evidence. When we challenged voter suppression, we were able to prove it, we were able to correct for it in many ways, and that's why we saw a dramatic increase in turnout from 2018 to 2020 where more voters were able to cast their ballots and have those ballots counted. my mission is to ensure that everyone trusts the system and that we make certain that it's a system that's worthy of that trust.
Source: ABC This Week interview for 2022 Georgia gubernatorial race Jan 3, 2021

  • The above quotations are from ABC This Week interviews for 2022 races
    (Martha Raddatz interviewing candidates for 2021-2022 races).
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