House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., criticized him on Friday, calling him the “ultimate hypocrite” in response to a new report that Raskin had refrained from endorsing a possible 2024 presidential victory for former President Trump.
“Ranking Member Raskin is the biggest hypocrite,” Comer told Fox News Digital. “He talks a lot about 'saving democracy' but actively undermines it by sowing doubt in America's free and fair elections when it benefits him.”
Kamer denounced Raskin as a “two-time election denier,” saying Raskin “suggested the 2000 election was invalid and did not certify the election results when Trump won.” The White House In 2016.”
“Now, ranking member Raskin is indicating he will do the same if he wins again in November. Raskin doesn't care about democracy at all. All he cares about is putting a Democrat in the White House, no matter the cost,” Comer said.
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House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., criticized Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Mo., on Friday, calling him the “ultimate hypocrite” in response to a report that Raskin did not reach commit to certifying Trump's victory as the first president wins in November was talking about. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Raskin, the committee's top Democrat and former Jan. 6 committee member, told Axios in a report released Thursday that if former President Trump “won a free, fair and honest election, we would certainly accept that.” . The report goes on to say that Raskin said he “definitely” does not expect the former president to use “free, fair and honest means” to win the Oval Office.
Raskin told Axios that Trump is “doing everything he can to interfere in the process, whether it’s rigging the Electoral College count in Nebraska or rigging the vote count in Georgia or imposing some other form of obstruction.”
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Several others are Democratic Members of Congress. Ruskin's sentiments were shared by Republicans John Schakowsky, R-Illinois, and Jim McGovern, R-Massachusetts. Axios Democrats will certify Trump's victory “assuming everything goes as we hope,” McGovern said.
In a report released Thursday, Raskin told Axios that if former President Trump “wins in a free, fair and honest election, we will certainly accept that.” (Reuters/Mike Seger)
Representative. Elise Stefanik, RNY, called the Democrats' statement “the most hypocrisy imaginable in politics.”
“After years of far-left stenographers in mainstream media outlets, corporate special interest groups, and radical Democrats smearing President Trump and Republicans for defending election integrity, now 24 days until Election Day, left-wing Democrats assert that President Trump won. Illegal will and the mainstream media will remain silent,” Stefanik told Fox News Digital.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Raskin responded to the criticism, saying: “The Democratic Party is the party of democracy and the rule of law. We support both.
“Trump and his followers have attempted to use fraud, deceit, lies, coercion, deceit, voter suppression and insurrectionary violence to seize power against our constitutional norms,” Raskin said. “I will never give up defending American constitutional democracy against its big lies, political coups and violent rebellions. And I certainly won't throw mud at President Kamar and call him a hypocrite, because that means he has some principles and ideals. “
Top Democrats have been critical House Speaker Mike Johnson last month was asked if he would commit to regular rules in certifying election results if Vice President Kamala Harris wins.
“Well, of course – if we want to have free, fair and safe elections, let’s follow the Constitution. Of course. Yes. Absolutely,” Johnson said.
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Election certification was also brought up during the vice-presidential debate a few weeks ago, when Senator J.D. Vance was pressed about previous comments that he would not vote to certify the 2020 election results in January 2021.
Sen. J.D. Vance, left, was pressed during the debate over past comments that he said he would not vote to certify the 2020 election results in January 2021. Gov. Tim Walz is pictured at right (AP/Matt Rourke)
Vance responded to the suggestion that Trump could prove to be a “threat to democracy,” saying he believes “we actually have a threat to democracy in this country” in the form of censorship.
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