Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) appeared to destroy his personal occasion’s argument towards former President Donald Trump by saying that he would honor the election outcome — if it have been “free and honest.”
Democrats’ closing argument towards Trump within the 2024 election has been that Trump is a “wannabe dictator,” and their proof is — as soon as once more — the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
However now Raskin, and others, appear to be saying that they, too, can be open to difficult election outcomes in the event that they believed the election had been “stolen.”
Raskin appeared on HBO’s Actual Time with Invoice Maher on Friday.
“No, we’re not going to permit them to steal it within the states, or steal it within the Division of Justice, or steal it with every other election official within the nation,” he mentioned. “If it’s a free and honest election, we’ll do what we’ve got all the time completed — we’ll honor it.”
Maher agreed that that was the “Democrats’ historical past” — although, after all, it was not, and positively not in Raskin’s personal case.
In 2017, Raskin proudly joined different members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in objecting to the certification of the 2016 election outcomes wherein former President Donald Trump received the presidency.
Raskin even linked from his congressional web site to an article within the left-wing publication The Nation (now solely obtainable in archived kind) titled “ Brave Home Progressives Elevate ‘Justice and Equity’ Objections to Certifying Trump.”
The article famous that members of the caucus raised fixed objections all through the certification: “ Newly elected Congressman Jamie Raskin, a constitutional regulation professor from Maryland, rose to query the method.”
In his feedback to Maher, Raskin left himself a large loophole: he would settle for the outcomes — in the event that they have been “free and honest.”
In so doing, he repeated a dodge that he used earlier within the 12 months, when he declined to say prematurely that he and fellow Democrats would honor the 2024 outcomes.
Axios reported that some Democrats, together with Raskin, have been leaving the door open to object to the outcomes once more.
If Trump “received a free, honest and trustworthy election, then we’d clearly settle for it,” Raskin mentioned, then added: “I positively don’t assume that.”
Raskin’s argument is not any completely different than these utilized by President Donald Trump in 2020-1, when he — and lots of others — believed that the elections have been neither free nor honest.
Raskin then led the second impeachment effort towards Trump, and sat on the one-sided January 6 Committee to probe those that had engaged in a so-called “rebel,” though he himself had raised objections to the 2017 election and is ready to take action in future.
Raskin additionally drew consideration earlier this 12 months when he described a situation wherein Democrats might refuse to certify Trump as president by citing Part 3 of the 14th Modification to disqualify him from workplace on the argument that he had engaged in “rebel.”
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Massive at Breitbart Information and the host of Breitbart Information Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He’s the creator of The Agenda: What Trump Ought to Do in His First 100 Days, obtainable for pre-order on Amazon. He’s additionally the creator of The Trumpian Virtues: The Classes and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency, now obtainable on Audible. He’s a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Comply with him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
