House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Friday criticized Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) in response to new reports that Raskin came no closer to certifying his 2024 presidential candidacy. ) criticized the lawmaker, calling him the “ultimate hypocrite.” Former President Trump's victory.
“Ranking Member Raskin is the ultimate hypocrite,” Comer told Fox News Digital. “He talks big talk about “saving democracy,'' but when it benefits him, he actively undermines democracy by sowing doubts about America's free and fair elections. ”
Comer accused Raskin of being a “two-time election denier,” saying Raskin “suggested that the 2000 election was illegal, and that when Trump won the White House in 2016, he criticized the election results.” was not recognized.”
“Right now, Mr. Raskin, a leading congressman, has indicated that he will do the same if Mr. Trump wins again in November. Mr. Raskin doesn't care about democracy at all. At any cost. But all I care about is getting a Democrat in the White House,” Comer said.
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House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Friday criticized Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), saying Raskin has never followed through on his promise to certify President Trump's victory. In response to the report, he called the lawmaker the “ultimate hypocrite.” The former president was supposed to win in November. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Raskin, the top Democrat on the committee and a former member of the Jan. 6 committee, told Axios in a report released Thursday that former President Trump “would have won a free, fair and honest election. , we will obviously accept that.” The report went on to say that Raskin “absolutely” did not assume the former president would use “free, fair and honest means” to win the Oval Office.
“President Trump is doing everything he can to disrupt the process, including manipulating the Electoral College in Nebraska, manipulating the vote count in Georgia, and imposing other types of obstacles,” Raskin told Axios. Ta.
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Several other Democrats, including Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, shared Mr. Raskin's sentiments. McGovern told Axios Democrats that he would certify Trump's victory “assuming everything goes as we expect.”
Raskin told Axios in a report released Thursday that if former President Trump “wins a free, fair and honest election, then of course we will accept it.” (Reuters/Mike Seeger)
Rep. Elise Stefanik (RN.Y.) also called the Democratic Party's statement “the most predictable hypocrisy in politics.”
“After radical leftist stenographers in the mainstream media, corporate special interests, and radical Democrats have viciously smeared President Trump and the Republicans who stood up for election integrity, we are now 24 days away from Election Day. Now, far-left Democrats are claiming President Trump's victory, which is illegal, and the mainstream media has remained silent,'' Stefanik told Fox News Digital.
Raskin responded to the criticism in a statement to Fox News Digital: “Democrats are the party of democracy and the rule of law, and we stand for both.”
“Mr. Trump and his supporters will use fraud, deception, lies, coercion, subterfuge, voter suppression, and mass insurrectionary violence to seize power in violation of the rules of the constitutional order,” Raskin said. ''. “I will never back down from defending America's constitutional democracy against their big lies, political coups, and violent insurrections. And I'm going to get into a quagmire with Chairman Comer and call him a hypocrite. Not because that would imply that he has some principles and ideals.'' ”
Democratic leaders criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson last month when asked if he intended to follow the rules in certifying the election results if Vice President Kamala Harris wins.
“Of course, we're going to follow the Constitution if it means we have a free, fair and secure election. Of course, yes. Absolutely,” Johnson said.
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Certification of the election was also touched upon during the Vice Presidential debate a few weeks ago, during which Sen. J.D. Vance said in the past that he would not have voted to certify the 2020 election results in January 2021. was pressed about his remark.
Sen. J.D. Vance (left) was questioned during the debate about his past comments in January 2021, when he said he did not vote to certify the 2020 election results. The photo on the right is Governor Tim Walz. (AP/Matt Rourke)
Vance pushed back against claims that Trump could prove to be a “threat to democracy,” saying he believes there is “a real threat to democracy in this country” in the form of censorship. said.
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