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Biden Downplays New Speaker Will Undermine 2024 US Election Outcome

U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint press conference with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 25, 2023.
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint press conference with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 25, 2023.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden, who is a candidate in the 2024 elections, said he was not worried about challenges to the election results, after Republicans on Wednesday selected Representative Mike Johnson as speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Johnson, a conservative with little leadership experience, authored an unsuccessful appeal by 126 House Republicans to get the Supreme Court to overturn election results in states that former Republican President Donald Trump had lost in the 2020 presidential election.

Asked if he was concerned about Johnson again attempting to overturn an election in 2024 if Biden wins reelection, Biden told reporters at the White House: "No."

Biden cited Republicans' roughly 60 failed lawsuits after his victory in the 2020 presidential election, adding: "I understand the Constitution."

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