Several top Democrats, including House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), have indicated that they may not commit to certifying the 2024 presidential election results if former President Donald Trump secures a victory. This reluctance was revealed during discussions with Axios, raising questions about the party’s stance on the upcoming election certification process.
Per Breitbart:
Raskin denied Trump won the 2016 election when he objected to Trump’s electors in 2017.
If Trump “won a free, fair and honest election, then we would obviously accept it,” Raskin said, assuming the election was free, fair and honest. “I definitely don’t assume that,” he added. “Democrats don’t engage in election fraud and election fabrication.”
A video surfaced in September of a panel discussion in February 2024 in which Raskin speculated that Congress would invalidate a Trump election victory, even though it could be at the risk of “civil war.”
“It is not clear whether Raskin was actually outlining a plan of action, or rather using a hypothetical to argue that the U.S. Supreme Court was placing what he considered an undue burden on Congress to keep Trump out of office,” Breitbart News’s Joel Pollak reported.
House Rules Committee Ranking Member Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) echoed Raskin’s concerns, telling Axios that Democrats would certify a Trump victory “assuming everything goes the way we expect it to … We have to see how it all happens.”
McGovern also objected to Trump’s electors in 2017.
The uncertainty among Democrats comes amid heightened political tension with 24 days until the presidential election. Raskin, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump, previously called the former president’s legacy “American carnage.”
In response to Thursday’s development, former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark criticized the Democrats’ position. Taking to X, Clark expressed frustration with what he sees as a double standard in how objections to election certifications are perceived:
Do you see how this works? If you’re a Republican in Congress and you object to certifying a President, you’re called an insurrectionist. But if you’re a Democrat like Jamie Raskin, you can object all you want, and it’s “protecting our democracy.”
Election certification has been a contentious issue since the unfounded claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential race, with Democrats consistently emphasizing the need to safeguard democracy. However, their reluctance to fully commit to certifying a potential Trump win could deepen mistrust on both sides of the political aisle.
Article Published With The Permission of American Liberty News.
Of course they will obstruct. But they won’t call it an inssurection, instead they will just say, ORANGE MAN BAD.
Democrats are willing to blow up the USA. TOO LATE, Russia, China and Iran are WAY ahead of the game.
To Rerun 2020
Instead of saying the fraud charges in 2020 were unfounded you should say unproven. Those who claimed there was election fraud were denied the opportunity to make their case in court. Had there been a trial with witness testifying and being cross examined and a jury ruling that the prosecution did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that election fraud took place you could truthfully say the claims of election fraud were unfounded. But as it is the unfounded claims are a matter of opinion that Trump haters believe to be true. I do not know whether or not the claims of election fraud in 2020 are true. I do believe that there could have been election fraud in 2020.
If these top Democrats may not commit to certifying the 2024 Presidential Election if Trump wins, then they should ALL be removed from their positions, especially Jamie Raskin. They are all a disgrace to the United States of America. Democrats are a big problem to our country. Look at what they have done in the past 4 years. They have destroyed the lives of millions of Americans with the things they have and are doing. They will not open their eyes and realize what they have done, they still want to blame everything they have done in the past 4 years on Trump.
And Raskin, I am a Maryland resident and I ‘DID NOT’ vote for or approve of you being in office. It is time for you to go.
ALL Dems are trying to subvert the election. Biden’s DO”J” is currently suing TWO states for removing NON-CITIZENS from their voter rolls! When Biden stopped the wall construction and s**tcanned Trump’s policies, his admin. and the whole MSM were screaming it wasn’t about votes…LIARS!
Unfortunately for Mr. Raskin he does not have the brains to stop us from getting Trump in the Oval Office. He’s just the mouthpiece for all those Democrats too afraid to cross Trump themselves. Not only that, but, Trump knows where all the bodies are buried from his last term and the thing that terrifies them the most is that he wont waste time on lawfare, he will just put the truth out there and the Country will take care of the lawbreakers.