Home Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., criticized Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Friday, calling him “the last word hypocrite” in response to a brand new report by which Raskin stopped wanting committing to certify a possible 2024 presidential win for former President Trump.
“Rating member Raskin is the last word hypocrite,” Comer informed Fox Information Digital. “He talks an enormous recreation about ‘saving democracy’ but actively undermines it by sowing seeds of doubt in America’s free and truthful elections when it advantages him to take action.”
Comer slammed Raskin as “a two-time election denier,” saying Raskin “prompt the 2000 election was illegitimate and didn’t certify election outcomes when Trump gained the White Home in 2016.”
“Now rating member Raskin is signaling he’d do the identical if Trump wins once more in November. Raskin doesn’t care in any respect about democracy. He solely cares about placing a Democrat within the White Home no matter the fee,” Comer stated.
Raskin, the highest Democrat on the committee and a former Jan. 6 committee member, informed Axios in a report revealed Thursday if former President Trump “gained a free, truthful and sincere election, then we might clearly settle for it.” The report continued to say that Raskin stated he “undoubtedly” doesn’t assume the previous president will make use of “free, truthful and sincere means” to win the Oval Workplace.
Trump “is doing no matter he can to attempt to intrude with the method, whether or not we’re speaking about manipulating electoral school counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote depend in Georgia or imposing different kinds of impediments,” Raskin informed Axios.
A number of different Democratic members of Congress shared Raskin’s sentiments, together with Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern. McGovern informed Axios Democrats will certify a Trump win “assuming every thing goes the best way we anticipate it to.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., additionally referred to as the Democrats’ statements “probably the most predictable hypocrisy in politics.”
“After years of the unconventional left’s stenographers within the mainstream media, company particular curiosity teams and radical Democrats viciously smearing President Trump and Republicans for standing up for election integrity, now 24 days till Election Day, far left Democrats are claiming {that a} President Trump victory could be illegitimate, and the mainstream media stays silent,” Stefanik informed Fox Information Digital.
Raskin responded to the criticism in an announcement to Fox Information Digital, saying, “The Democratic Get together is a celebration of democracy and the rule of regulation. We stand by each.
“Trump and his followers have tried to make use of fraud, deceit, lies, coercion, trickery, voter suppression and mass insurrectionary violence to grab energy in opposition to the foundations of our constitutional order,” Raskin stated. “I’ll by no means again down from defending American constitutional democracy in opposition to their massive lies, political coups and violent insurrections. And I actually gained’t get into the mud with Chairman Comer and name him a hypocrite as a result of that may suggest he has some ideas and beliefs to betray.”
Prime Democrats criticized Home Speaker Mike Johnson final month after he was requested if he’d decide to observing common order in certifying the election outcomes if Vice President Kamala Harris have been to win.
“Nicely, in fact — if we now have a free, truthful and secure election, we’re going to comply with the Structure. Completely. Sure. Completely,” Johnson stated.
Election certification was additionally touched upon through the vice presidential debate a number of weeks in the past, when Sen. JD Vance was pressed on previous feedback saying he wouldn’t have voted to certify the 2020 election leads to January 2021.
Vance fired again on the proposition that Trump may show to be a “menace to democracy,” saying he believes “we truly do have a menace to democracy on this nation” within the type of censorship.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz circled again to the 2021 trade, blasting Trump and Republicans for denying the occasions that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol constructing.