Rep. Donalds Open to Refusing to Certify 2028 Results as Vice President

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., expressed to Axios on Thursday that he would be willing to refuse to certify the 2028 election results if he were vice president, “if you have evidence that the procedures were not followed.”

“If you have state officials who are violating the election law in their states because of an ’emergency’ without going through the legislative process, which is by our Constitution and every law in our states, then no, I would not,” Donalds said when asked if he would certify the results “if they stood as they stood in 2020.”

“The law has to stand regardless. If the law does not stand, then what do we have? … Every elected official has the responsibility to uphold the law. Despite popular opinion, that is the reality,” he continued.

“As long as procedures in the states are being followed to the law that was outlined by the Legislature and signed by governors and it was followed, of course you do. But if you have evidence that the procedures were not followed,” Donalds added.

He also noted that three states did not follow those procedures in 2021.

Former Vice President Mike Pence certified the results of the 2020 election despite then-President Donald Trump’s insistence that he could unilaterally overturn the results.