Democratic Home Minority Chief Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., claimed that there are “no election deniers” within the Democratic Get together, regardless of beforehand claiming on social media that the 2016 presidential election was “illegitimate.”
After Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was re-elected to the highest Home put up for the 119th Congress on Friday, Jeffries addressed lawmakers.
“There aren’t any election deniers on our facet of the aisle,” Jeffries mentioned whereas talking on the Home ground on Friday, prompting applause from the Democratic members within the chamber.
Regardless of claiming that members of his get together do not deny election outcomes, Jeffries himself claimed on X, beforehand often known as Twitter, that President-elect Trump’s 2016 election victory wasn’t reliable.
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Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks throughout a press convention on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2023. (Kevin Dietsch)
“The extra we find out about 2016 election the extra ILLEGITIMATE it turns into,” Jeffries wrote in February 2018. “America deserves to know whether or not we’ve got a FAKE President within the Oval Workplace.”
Jeffries once more made an identical declare a number of years later.
“Hold pouting. Historical past won’t ever settle for you as a reliable president,” Jeffries wrote to Trump in a 2020 put up. A screenshot of the put up was shared by Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska following the speaker’s vote on Friday.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who ran towards Trump because the Democratic nominee in 2016, additionally mentioned that Trump was an “illegitimate president” after his election win that yr.
President-elect Trump speaks at AmericaFest in Phoenix on Dec. 22, 2024. (Rick Scuteri)
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“He is aware of he’s an illegitimate president,” Clinton mentioned of Trump throughout a CBS Information interview. “I imagine he understands that the numerous various ways they used, from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false tales — he is aware of that — there have been only a bunch of various the reason why the election turned out prefer it did.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., didn’t attend Trump’s 2017 inauguration attributable to claims that his presidency was not legit.
“He was legally elected, however the Russian weighing-in on the election, the Russian try and hack the election and, frankly, the FBI’s weighing-in on the election, I feel, makes his election illegitimate, places an asterisk subsequent to his title,” Nadler instructed CNN in 2017.
Moreover, a number of Democratic representatives challenged the outcomes of the 2016 election of their states following Trump’s win.
