Top Republicans are attacking incoming Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries as an 'election denier.' Here's why that label is misleading
an “election denier,” starting a line of attack against the New York Democrat after he was chosen to lead his party as House Minority Leader next year.
“The newly elected incoming leader of House Democrats is a past election denier who basically said the 2016 election was quote ‘illegitimate,'” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnellThe Republican National Committee’s Twitter account also posted a tweet on Wednesday referring to Jeffries as an “election denier.”
McConnell and the RNC are referring to comments Jeffries made in the wake of the 2016 election of President Donald Trump. In tweets, news interviews, and House hearings, Jeffries called to question the legitimacy of Trump’s election because of Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 race, and accused Trump of colluding with Russia to win the election.
The term “election denier” has taken on a particular meaning, however, after Trump’s failed re-election campaign. The phrase has come to be associated with Republicans who claim the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, assert without evidence there was fraud in 2020 voting, and cast doubt on secure voting systems—claims that lead to the deadly January 6, 2021Calling Jeffries an “election denier’ is misleading and conflates different issues.
Prior to the 2020 election, many Democrats pointed to evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election, the fact that Trump won the Electoral College but did not win the popular vote, and used talking points calling Trump “not my President.” But the actions taken by Trump and his supporters leading up to 2020 election and after were unprecedented.
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