U.S. House Rep. Barry Moore, R-AL, does not know whether he will accept the election results if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in a few weeks.
Following a town hall in Baldwin County about Title XI and immigration, AL.com asked Moore if he would accept the election results as legitimate if Trump loses. Moore said he does not know what he will do.
“You know, at this point, I don’t know what I would do,” Moore said. “I probably would have to see the election results. But I can tell you this, I think we need to be checking IDs to make sure people are US citizens that are voting.”
In 2020, Donald Trump lost the presidential election. He and many of his supporters, however, claimed that the election results were illegitimate because of false claims of widespread fraud.
That led to the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol by supporters of Trump. Following the siege on the building over 147 Republicans still voted in opposition to certifying the election results.
Moore was one of those Republicans.
During the town hall portion on immigration, Moore claimed that many immigrants are being flown into the country for “political reasons.”
“The reason they’re flying in here now is because it’s an election year,” Moore said.
“So rather than all those people pouring through those passes out there, they’re putting people on airplanes with this new program and apply them to your communities. And so that goal is, the appearance is, oh, they’re doing a better job on who’s crossing the border, but in reality, they’re crossing folks, whether 35,000 feet above your head and headed to a town near you. And so they’re doing it strictly for political reasons, and you cannot trust these folks.”
Republicans have made concerns about non-citizen voting a central point of their messaging ahead of the presidential election.
Last week, a federal judge blocked an Alabama voter removal program due to it violating a federal statute that prohibits purging voters within 90 days of an election.
Secretary of State Wes Allen said the removal program was an effort to remove non-citizen voters. The judge who issued the order, Anna Manasco, was appointed by Trump.
