Ramaswamy says GOP won't baselessly probe foreign election interference if Trump loses

Vivek Ramaswamy, a former GOP presidential candidate, said Tuesday that Republicans won't baselessly investigate whether there was foreign interference in the election if former President Donald Trump loses.

"I think that one commitment I think Republicans can make is if Donald Trump loses this election and Kamala Harris becomes the president, God forbid in my case – I'm not rooting for that outcome – Republicans are not gonna launch some type of multi-year investigation that impedes the first two years of her presidency with false allegations of foreign election interference," Ramaswamy said in an interview with Kasie Hunt, host of CNN This Morning.

Hunt had asked him whether Trump should concede if he loses the election. She interrupted Ramaswamy during his response to ask again, prompting the former candidate to say, "I think whoever wins the election should win the election, and whoever loses should concede."

Following the 2016 election, which Trump won, then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller and multiple congressional committees began investigating whether Russia interfered with the electoral process.

Mueller described his probe in a 2019 report, in which he determined the Russian government interfered in "sweeping and systematic fashion." Ramaswamy said the Democratic Party undermined Trump's first two years in office with investigations supported by its members.

"The presidency was actually undermined by Kamala Harris and the Democrats, the Democratic Party that Kamala Harris is a part of, for the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency on allegations of a false Russia collusion hoax that was disproven," he said.

Mueller concluded in his report that Trump's 2016 campaign team did not coordinate with the Russian government for election interference activities. Ramaswamy told Hunt that Americans can "move forward" with a "free" and "fair" election.

"We want a free, fair election where the winner is decisively decided. Americans can then move forward as a country behind that. Whichever candidate wins, I'm looking forward to that happening for the country, and I'm hoping that's Donald Trump tonight," he said.

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