Democratic House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., claimed that there are “no election deniers” within the Democratic Party, 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 House submit for the 119th Congress on Friday, Jeffries addressed lawmakers.
“There aren’t any election deniers on our aspect of the aisle,” Jeffries stated whereas talking on the House ground on Friday, prompting applause from the Democratic members within the chamber.
Despite claiming that members of his occasion do not deny election outcomes, Jeffries himself claimed on X, beforehand referred to as Twitter, that President-elect Trump’s 2016 election victory wasn’t legit.
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House Minority Leader 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 have now a FAKE President within the Oval Office.”
Jeffries once more made the same declare a number of years later.
“Keep pouting. History won’t ever settle for you as a legit 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 towards Trump because the Democratic nominee in 2016, additionally stated that Trump was an “illegitimate president” after his election win that 12 months.
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 stated of Trump throughout a CBS News interview. “I imagine he understands that the various 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 explanation why the election turned out prefer 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, however the Russian weighing-in on the election, the Russian try to 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 identify,” Nadler advised CNN in 2017.
Additionally, a number of Democratic representatives challenged the outcomes of the 2016 election of their states following Trump’s win.
