House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) dropped a subtle hint that Democrats may not certify the November election if former President Donald Trump is elected to office a second time.
The Democrat leader was responding to a biased question from CNN anchor Jake Tapper during an appearance Sunday on State of the Union when he spoke about stopping Trump from assuming control of the U.S. government
Tapper asked Jeffries about whether a Republican-led House would vote against certifying the presidential election results if Kamala Harris prevailed — the CNN anchor regurgitating Democratic talking points to insinuate that Trump is beginning to accept his inevitable defeat.
“Donald Trump and his allies are already starting to lay the groundwork to contest the election results in November,” Tapper said. “Are you confident that a Republican-led House will certify the 2024 election in January?”
.@RepJeffries says House Democrats will do “everything that we need to do” to win back the House so that the American people don’t need to encounter the question of whether the House GOP will certify the 2024 election. pic.twitter.com/A1yJdb7AZA
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) August 18, 2024
“I’m confident that we’re going to do everything that we need to do over the next few months to make sure that House Democrats take back the majority so that the American people do not have to encounter that question,” Jeffries replied.
“It is a reality that far too many of my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues in the House have engaged in election denial, conspiracy theories, and have tried to undermine the very fabric of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. That’s what Project 2025 is all about,” he claimed. “Republicans want total control over the lives of the American people, total control over our government, and total control over our democracy. And we’ve got to stop it from happening.”
Tapper sat idle while the Democratic leader spouted his misinformation about Project 2025, which is essentially a conservative think-tank wish list — Trump has distanced himself from the initiative that Democrats and their media allies cherry-pick from to tarnish the Republican nominee.
As noted on social media, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has already touched on the possibility of Congress not certifying Trump if he wins, based on the myth that Trump engaged in insurrection.
Raskin has already stated they would refuse to certify the election if President Trump wins.
— Stephen Clayton Jr (@sclaytonjr) August 19, 2024
A clip surfaced of Raskin talking about the Supreme Court’s “imminent abdication of its very clear duty to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot, under Section three of the 14th amendment.”
“And what that might mean, if their decision says that it’s really up to Congress, on January 5th – or January 6th, 2025, to disqualify him at the counting of the electoral college votes,” Raskin added. “Which could really lead to something. Civil War. If that’s what the suggestion is. Which is what I think I heard. When I went to the oral argument.”
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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