House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Friday questioned Rep. Jamie Raskin's commitment to democracy, saying the Maryland Democratic Party would not be able to predict the outcome of the 2024 presidential election if Donald Trump retakes the White House. declared that he would refuse.
The accusation by Mr. Comer (R-Ky.) comes after Mr. Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee and a former member of the January 6 Committee, said he did not expect the former president to “definitely” do so. This was done after the publication of a new report. The report says that “free, fair and honest means” must be adhered to to win the November 5 election.
“Ranking Member Raskin is the ultimate hypocrite,” Comer told Fox News Digital. “Despite his big talk of “saving democracy,'' he actively sows doubts about America's free and fair elections and actively defends democracy when it benefits him. It is damaging.”
The Kentucky Republican suggested that Mr. Raskin didn't care about democracy and only wanted to put a Democrat in the White House “at all costs,” calling Mr. Raskin “twice.” He accused him of being an election denier.
Comer argued that Raskin once suggested the 2000 election was unfair, but did not certify the election results when Trump won the presidency in 2016.
“Ranking member Raskin is now suggesting that Trump would do the same thing if he wins again in November,” Comer said, according to Fox.
Raskin told Axios in a report released Thursday that if the former president “won a free, fair and honest election, we would of course accept it,” but that President Trump is trying to disrupt the election process. He said he believed he would do everything possible to achieve this goal.
Raskin added that Democrats value democracy and the rule of law and believe Trump could manipulate the Electoral College in Nebraska and the vote count in Georgia, among other types of interference. Fox reported.
“Mr. Trump and his followers used fraud, deceit, lies, coercion, subterfuge, voter suppression, and massive insurrectionary violence to seize power against the rules of the constitutional order,” Raskin told Fox. “I tried to take advantage of it,” he said.
He vowed to stand firm in defending America's constitutional democracy in the face of “big lies, political coups, and violent insurrection.”
“And I would never get into a quagmire with Chairman Comer and call him a hypocrite, because that would imply that he has principles and ideals that he should betray,” Raskin said. Ta.
Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern agreed with Raskin, telling Axios that Democrats would certify Trump's victory “assuming everything goes as we expect.”
But New York state Rep. Elise Stefanik accused Democrats of “predictable hypocrisy.”
“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.
House Speaker Mike Johnson sparked outrage from Democrats last month when he said he would abide by the Constitution and certify Vice President Kamala Harris' likely victory if the election was “free, fair and secure.”
President Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, has also come under fire for repeatedly saying in an interview that he did not vote to certify the 2020 election results in January 2021.
