What About Democrats Who 'Deny Elections'?
By Larry Elder
After the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference convention in Dallas, CNN published a video with the following headline: "Election deniers take over CPAC after primary victories." In a recent appearance on CBS, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump and serves on the House Jan. 6 committee, said: "The only thing we need for democracy to survive is the knowledge that you can vote, that that vote counts, and we live with the winner and loser. If half the country believes that that wasn't accurate, you can't expect democracy to survive."
Where was this concern about "election deniers" when Democrats have complained about "stolen" elections?
In 2018, Democrat Stacey Abrams claimed she lost her Georgia gubernatorial race due to voter "suppression." In her speech after the election was called for her opponent, she refused to concede. Three years later, she told CNN that her opponent "won under the rules of the game at the time, but the game was rigged against the voters of Georgia." A USA Today fact check said, "There is little empirical evidence (opponent Georgia then-Secretary of State Brian) Kemp stole the election.
Former Vice President Al Gore, in a Washington Post interview two years after his presidential defeat to George W. Bush, said, "I believe that if everyone in Florida who tried to vote had had his or her vote counted properly, that I would have won."
In January 2001 several House Democrats voted against certifying the election results of 2000. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said in a joint session of Congress: "The objection is in writing, and I do not care that it is not signed by a member of the Senate (as is necessary to force a Senate vote on the challenge.)"
Had Ohio, in 2004, gone to Democrat John Kerry, he would have become president. President George W. Bush carried it 51% to 49%, a margin of about 100,000 votes. But Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., on Jan. 6, 2005, joined 30 other House Democrats and Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in refusing to certify Ohio's presidential election results, claiming "voter suppression" in addition to arguing, also with no basis in fact, that the Diebold voting machines were manipulated to reelect Bush. The Senate voted 74-1 against the Democrats' challenge. Though Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., voted against the challenge, he praised Boxer in 2005 for making it: "I thank her for doing that, because it gives members an opportunity once again on a bipartisan basis to look at a challenge that we face not just in the last election in one state, but in many states."
Hillary Clinton consistently calls the presidential election of 2016 "stolen" and described then-President Trump as "illegitimate." Former President Jimmy Carter said in 2019: "I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf." New York Attorney General Letitia James said she "will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president."
About the 2016 election, former Obama Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson testified under oath that, while the Russians tried to manipulate voting machines, there is no evidence that a single vote tally was changed. As to the effect of Russian interference, Johnson said that there's no way of knowing whether the interference affected public opinion or the election result.
Nevertheless a 2018 YouGov poll found 66% of Democrats believe that Russia changed vote tallies to elect Trump in 2016. A 2018 Gallup poll found 78% of Democrats believe that Russian interference in 2016 "changed the outcome of the election" in favor of Trump.
About the 2020 election, CNN politics editor Chris Cillizza wrote: "76% of self-identified Republicans in a new national Quinnipiac University poll. That's the number of Republicans who said they believe there was 'widespread fraud in the 2020 election.'" As noted, a greater percentage of Democrats, 78%, consider 2016's presidential election to have been "stolen" compared to 76% of Republicans who feel likewise about 2020.
Now what?
[Larry Elder is a best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an "Elderado," visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @larryelder. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.]
COPYRIGHT 2022 LAURENCE A. ELDER
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After the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference convention in Dallas, CNN published a video with the following headline: "Election deniers take over CPAC after primary victories." In a recent appearance on CBS, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump and serves on the House Jan. 6 committee, said: "The only thing we need for democracy to survive is the knowledge that you can vote, that that vote counts, and we live with the winner and loser. If half the country believes that that wasn't accurate, you can't expect democracy to survive."
Where was this concern about "election deniers" when Democrats have complained about "stolen" elections?
In 2018, Democrat Stacey Abrams claimed she lost her Georgia gubernatorial race due to voter "suppression." In her speech after the election was called for her opponent, she refused to concede. Three years later, she told CNN that her opponent "won under the rules of the game at the time, but the game was rigged against the voters of Georgia." A USA Today fact check said, "There is little empirical evidence (opponent Georgia then-Secretary of State Brian) Kemp stole the election.
Former Vice President Al Gore, in a Washington Post interview two years after his presidential defeat to George W. Bush, said, "I believe that if everyone in Florida who tried to vote had had his or her vote counted properly, that I would have won."
In January 2001 several House Democrats voted against certifying the election results of 2000. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said in a joint session of Congress: "The objection is in writing, and I do not care that it is not signed by a member of the Senate (as is necessary to force a Senate vote on the challenge.)"
Had Ohio, in 2004, gone to Democrat John Kerry, he would have become president. President George W. Bush carried it 51% to 49%, a margin of about 100,000 votes. But Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., on Jan. 6, 2005, joined 30 other House Democrats and Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in refusing to certify Ohio's presidential election results, claiming "voter suppression" in addition to arguing, also with no basis in fact, that the Diebold voting machines were manipulated to reelect Bush. The Senate voted 74-1 against the Democrats' challenge. Though Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., voted against the challenge, he praised Boxer in 2005 for making it: "I thank her for doing that, because it gives members an opportunity once again on a bipartisan basis to look at a challenge that we face not just in the last election in one state, but in many states."
Hillary Clinton consistently calls the presidential election of 2016 "stolen" and described then-President Trump as "illegitimate." Former President Jimmy Carter said in 2019: "I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf." New York Attorney General Letitia James said she "will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president."
About the 2016 election, former Obama Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson testified under oath that, while the Russians tried to manipulate voting machines, there is no evidence that a single vote tally was changed. As to the effect of Russian interference, Johnson said that there's no way of knowing whether the interference affected public opinion or the election result.
Nevertheless a 2018 YouGov poll found 66% of Democrats believe that Russia changed vote tallies to elect Trump in 2016. A 2018 Gallup poll found 78% of Democrats believe that Russian interference in 2016 "changed the outcome of the election" in favor of Trump.
About the 2020 election, CNN politics editor Chris Cillizza wrote: "76% of self-identified Republicans in a new national Quinnipiac University poll. That's the number of Republicans who said they believe there was 'widespread fraud in the 2020 election.'" As noted, a greater percentage of Democrats, 78%, consider 2016's presidential election to have been "stolen" compared to 76% of Republicans who feel likewise about 2020.
Now what?
[Larry Elder is a best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an "Elderado," visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @larryelder. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.]
COPYRIGHT 2022 LAURENCE A. ELDER
DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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Liberals, like their father the devil, would rather be in Hell believing a lie than in Heaven believing the truth.
Larry does a wonderful job illustrating "whataboutisms" by pointing to the democrats whining about GW Bush's victory over Gore, Hillary's loss to Trump, & Abrams loss to Kemp, but there is one big difference between these 3 elections & Trump's 2020 defeat, the pre-election proclamations.
None of these democratic losers began crying about their forthcoming defeats before the elections like Trump did in 2016 & in 2020. Trump was saying, "There is no way that I can lose the election unless it's fixed." Trump began planting the seeds of election fraud in preparation of defeat.
Larry is correct that there is no empirical evidence that Kemp actually stole the election, but there is no doubt that many many GA voters were denied the right to vote after Sec.State Kemp decided to purge the voting rolls. Acceptance is hard, but at least she acknowledged her defeat. It was also about voter suppression issue with the GWB/Gore presidential campaign.. Unfortunately, he fails to point out that Gore was able to our judicial system because unlike Trump, he had admissible/actual evidence.
Hillary, who like Gore won the popular vote, was correct about Russia's interference according to AG Barr's summation of the Mueller Report, but I'll simply accept Trump's own words when he tweeted, "Russia may have helped me win, but they're not helping me now, best economy ever."
Larry's numbers regarding democrats denial of 2016 & republicans denial of 2020 are probably correct, but maybe he should have considered that democrats blame Russia & republicans blame their fellow Americans for these election thefts. Nobody likes admitting defeat and it's happened many times more than Larry has pointed out here, but as write this response I can't help but notice the 1st comment that refers to liberals as being children of the devil who'd rather believe a lie in hell vs the truth in heaven and yet, as Matthew warned, the Elitist has brought forth only words for his defeat and continues to bare false witness upon those whom he are responsible for his election loss.
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