When Candidates Refuse to Concede
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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A close look at what might happen if either presidential candidate refuses to concede. What checks and balances are built into the system? It's another law seminar, today on The Dershow.
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| 0:00.0 | What if the losing candidate for president on November 3rd refuses to accept the outcome? |
| 0:09.0 | Already we have |
| 0:15.0 | Hillary Clinton, the former nominee urging the Democrats not to concede until all legal |
| 0:17.5 | options are exhausted and we have President Trump saying well we're to have to wait and see what happens. |
| 0:25.9 | Is this really a constitutional crisis? |
| 0:30.4 | I'm going to conduct a law school seminar on all the possibilities of what could happen |
| 0:36.4 | post November 3rd. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Alan Dershowitz and this is the Dersha. |
| 0:51.0 | What would happen if the losing candidate in the presidential election of 2020 simply refuse to accept the outcome of the election claiming that the vote was rigged or that |
| 0:59.3 | there were improprieties. Already we've heard the president when asked if you would accept the |
| 1:04.7 | outcome he said we're going to have to see what happens and we know that |
| 1:10.4 | former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said that the |
| 1:16.2 | Democrats quote should not concede the election until all legal |
| 1:21.7 | options have been exhausted. |
| 1:25.0 | The gauntlet has been thrown down. |
| 1:28.1 | What will happen? |
| 1:30.0 | I'm going to now conduct a law school seminar on all the possible options and what the legal |
| 1:36.6 | consequences would be if either candidate refused to accept the outcome of the election? |
| 1:43.4 | The answer in short is, it depends. |
| 1:46.8 | It depends on what their position is if you take the Hillary Clinton position, which says |
| 1:52.1 | don't concede until all the legal options are exhausted. |
| 1:56.4 | All she's doing is urging the current Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, to do what Al Gore did in 2000. |
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