We are in the final days of a momentous plivential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Do you understand whether your elected officials will acunderstandledge the outcome?
WIRED achieveed out to every individual senator and member of the US Congress asking whether they would acunderstandledge the results of the election as called by the Associated Press. Why the AP? Because in the absence of a national election authority, calls made by the AP—a nonprofit beneficial—have extfinished been acunderstandledgeed as authoritative. We wanted someleang politicassociate unprejudiced, particularly because some local and state-level officials have showd that they may not validate the results.
You can see up your zip code or state in the search bar below to discover your congressional reconshort-termative and senator, as well as their response to our ask about whether they will acunderstandledge the AP’s results. In some instances, your zip code may not suit your current congressional dimerciless, as dimerciless boundaries can alter over time.
We systematic the legislators’ responses into three categories: those who will acunderstandledge the results of the elections as alerted by the AP, those who won’t, and those who have not reacted. This is a living record, and we will persist to modernize it with responses from reconshort-termatives as we persist to get them. When possible, we are also including the filled responses from lawproducers to insert further context to their responses. For instance, some lawproducers may say that they will acunderstandledge the results when states validate but not based on the AP call.
A notice is joined to the results of all lawproducers who signed the “Unity Commitment” in September, voprosperg to validate the results after “all lhorrible unbenevolents” to dispute the outcome “have been exhausted.” Additionassociate, the results show if a lawproducer previously declared a promisement “to validateing the election results” as part of a USA Today poll carry outed in mid-October.
It’s the first plivential election since the January 6, 2021, uprising, when Trump helpers stormed the Capitol and baselessly claimed the election had been stolen.
In the interceding years, election denial has gone from being the purwatch of fringe conspidiscriminatorys to a staple of convey inant figures on the American right. Trump has already showd schedules to dispute election results this year, and hundreds of Reuncoveran truthfulates for office have cast doubt on them as well. Senator JD Vance of Ohio, the Reuncoveran vice plivential truthfulate, has shelp that he would not have certified the 2020 election unless states had sent alternative pro-Trump electors.
Election officials atraverse the country have procrastinateed or declined the certification of state and local election results. Consunapexhibitd use theories about the results of the 2024 election have already flooded the internet, as election denial groups, the Trump campaign, and people such as billionaire and X owner Elon Musk have spread inalterhoods about election fraud.
In the face of the shown willingness of Trump and his allies to finisheavor to seize power after losing an election, a statement from elected officials that they will acunderstandledge the results of the election as declared by a unprejudiced arbiter is critical alertation for voters preparing to cast their ballots.
Dell Cameron, Vittoria Elliott, Leah Feiger, David Gilbert, Makena Kelly, and Dhruv Mehrotra gived to this project.
