Rep. Elise Stefanik on Sunday would not decide to certifying the 2024 presidential election outcomes, saying she’ll need to assess whether or not the the end result of the competition is “authorized and legitimate.”
Stefanik, the chair of the Home Republican Convention and an ardent backer of former President Donald Trump’s reelection bid, advised host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that she did not certify the 2020 leads to Pennsylvania because of what she mentioned have been “unconstitutional acts circumventing the state legislature” in the important thing battleground state.
When pressed by Welker over certifying the 2024 outcomes, Stefanik proceeded to slam Democrats and lambasted efforts to take away Trump from the GOP presidential main ballots in Colorado, Maine, and a number of other different states.
“We’ll see if this can be a authorized and legitimate election,” the New York congresswoman mentioned of the upcoming November contest. “What we’re seeing up to now is that Democrats are so determined, they’re making an attempt to take away President Trump from the poll. That could be a suppression of the American individuals.”
“And the Supreme Court docket is taking that case up in February — that ought to be a 9 to zero to permit President Trump to seem on the poll as a result of that is the American individuals’s resolution to make this November,” she added.
WATCH: @RepStefanik (R-N.Y.) refuses to decide to certifying 2024 election outcomes whereas doubling down on the disproven declare that the 2020 election was “unconstitutional.”
“We’ll see if [2024] is a authorized and legitimate election.” pic.twitter.com/ZCPwab4BoU
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 7, 2024
Welker then requested Stefanik: “Will you solely decide to certify the outcomes if former President Trump wins? Does that imply provided that former President Trump wins?”
Stefanik replied: “No, it means in the event that they’re constitutional. What we noticed in 2020 was unconstitutional circumventing of the Structure, not going via state legislators in terms of altering election regulation.”
The congresswoman, who’s broadly seen as a possible vice presidential candidate and within the interview mentioned she’d be “honored” to serve in a possible second Trump administration, echoed the previous president’s use of the time period “hostages” to explain the people prosecuted for his or her ties to the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Stefanik known as Jan. 6 a “really tragic day” earlier than pivoting to the welfare of those that are at present serving out their sentences in jail.
“I’ve issues concerning the therapy of January 6 hostages,” she advised Welker. “We have now a rule in Congress of oversight over our therapies of prisoners. And I imagine that we’re seeing the weaponization of the federal authorities in opposition to not simply President Trump, however we’re seeing it in opposition to conservatives.”
President Joe Biden final week blasted Trump, the GOP presidential frontrunner, in a significant speech the place he argued that the previous president had sought to to subvert democracy and destabilize American establishments.
However on Sunday, Stefanik charged that it’s really Biden and the Democratic Occasion that pose a “menace to democracy,” pointing to myriad challenges tied to Trump’s 2024 poll eligibility.
