Top Democrats hint that they might not certify a victory by former President Donald Trump if he defeats far-left Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.
Attempting to overturn the result of a legitimate election would be nothing new for the party’s near-Marxist leaders, who vigorously objected to certifying Trump’s triumph in 2016.
But the latest report by leftist Axios suggests that a conspiracy to deny Trump’s victory this year might be afoot.
Notably, U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a leader of the extremist hate-Trump party, is already spreading disinformation about the election, claiming that Trump is rigging it.
Trump up to No Good
“House Democrats railed against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for hedging on whether a GOP-controlled House would certify a Kamala Harris victory,” the website reported. “But some of their senior members are playing a similar game.”
Most Democrats, Axios continued, seem “fully prepared” to certify Trump, so the troublemakers are a “small minority.”
Raskin would accept Trump if he “won a free, fair and honest election,” the congressman told Axios. But, suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, he added that he’s not counting on that.
“Raskin said he ‘definitely’ doesn’t assume that Trump would use free, fair and honest means to secure a victory,” Axios continued:
Trump “is doing whatever he can to try to interfere with the process, whether we’re talking about manipulating electoral college counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote count in Georgia or imposing other kinds of impediments,” Raskin said.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), a senior chief deputy whip who voted to object to George W. Bush electors in 2005, said of Trump, “I don’t know what kind of shenanigans he is planning,” adding: “We would have to, in any election … make sure that all the rules have been followed.”
Schakowsky later said in a statement that she was “proud to … join all my Democratic colleagues in certifying the 2020 election” and looks forward to “doing the same in January 2025.”
Still, another top Democrat, House Rules Committee Ranking Member Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, a 2016 election denier, said his party would certify Trump “assuming everything goes the way we expect it to,” Axios continued.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York offered the anodyne last month.
At a news conference in September, he said that “House Democrats are going to do everything necessary to … ensure that the winner of the presidential election is certified on January 6th without drama or consequences.”
The website offered a little history of Democrats’ election denial:
In 2005, Democrats’ objection to Bush’s win in Ohio failed 31-267 in the House and 1-74 in the Senate.
In 2017, a half dozen House Democrats filed objections to ten Trump elector slates, but failed to get the backing of a senator and were unable to force any votes.
Amusingly, Axios reported, Raskin claimed that “Democrats don’t engage in election fraud and election fabrication.”
Denying Trump Defeated Clinton
Raskin’s claim is demonstrably false. But even if it were true, Democrats do “engage” in election denial. Indeed, they have perfected it.
Consider their unvarnished anger over Trump’s victory in 2016 and what they said afterward.
Losing 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed at least nine times that Trump robbed her.
“You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” she once said.
Clinton, who masterminded the Russian Collusion Hoax that did so much to cripple Trump’s presidency, also said that “Trump knows he’s an illegitimate president.”
Centenarian former President Jimmy Carter falsely claimed that “Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered.”
When a woman at a Biden campaign event in New Hampshire in 2019 claimed Trump was “illegitimate,” Biden replied this way: “I absolutely agree.”
In 2023, the GOP released a report that featured claims from more than a dozen Democrats that Trump did not win the 2016 election.
Among them were Raskin, who said Trump won because of the GOP’s “deliberate voter suppression … in numerous swing states.” Schakowsky falsely claimed that Trump won because of “foreign interference and voter suppression.”
Such was the fury among Democrats that Clinton was denied “her turn” — one of the more preposterous reasons they offered to vote for the mistress of Pantsuit Nation — that more than five dozen refused to attend the inauguration.
Communist Antifa goons burned cars and vandalized stores.
When it came time to certify Trump in January 2017, one Democrat after another, including Raskin, rose to object.
Joe Biden shut them down.
Back to 2005
But what Democrats tried with Trump they had tried before. They falsely claimed that former President George W. Bush lost to Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004.
Thirty-one Democrats voted to reject Bush’s victory in Ohio.
Among those who said Bush didn’t win were California’s Representative Nancy Pelosi, who called Trump and Republicans “enemies of the people,” and top Democratic senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Barbara Boxer of California, and the late Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
As for November’s election, it appears Democrats are again prepared to push election disinformation and debunked, far-left conspiracy theories should Trump win.
