Democratic Home Minority Chief Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., claimed that there are “no election deniers” within the Democratic Celebration, 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 submit for the 119th Congress on Friday, Jeffries addressed lawmakers.
“There are no election deniers on our side of the aisle,” Jeffries mentioned whereas talking on the Home flooring 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 generally 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 more we learn about 2016 election the more ILLEGITIMATE it becomes,” Jeffries wrote in February 2018. “America deserves to know whether we have a FAKE President in the Oval Office.”
Jeffries once more made an identical declare a number of years later.
“Keep pouting. History will never accept you as a legitimate president,” Jeffries wrote to Trump in a 2020 submit. A screenshot of the submit 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 in opposition to 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 knows he’s an illegitimate president,” Clinton mentioned of Trump throughout a CBS Information interview. “I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used, from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories — he knows that — there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., didn’t attend Trump’s 2017 inauguration as a result of claims that his presidency was not legit.
“He was legally elected, but the Russian weighing-in on the election, the Russian attempt to hack the election and, frankly, the FBI’s weighing-in on the election, I think, makes his election illegitimate, puts an asterisk next to his name,” 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.
