'Joe Biden and the Democrats are a threat to democracy': Elise Stefanik REFUSES to commit to accepting 2024 election results as she doubles down on claim that 2020 race was 'unconstitutional'
- Stefanik was one of 147 Republicans who did not vote to certify the 2020 results
- She said today: 'Joe Biden and the Democrats are a threat to democracy'
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Elise Stefanik has refused to accept the results of the 2024 presidential election unless they are “constitutional”, citing her continued dissatisfaction with Joe Biden's 2020 victory.
The Republican representative for New York's 21st congressional district doubled down on her claims that the previous race – which Trump lost – was unconstitutional.
She said Democrats still pose a “threat to democracy” as they try to remove Trump – who is currently the frontrunner of the Republican Party – from the ballot in several states.
Stefanik was one of 147 Republicans in Congress who did not vote to certify the 2020 results because they believed they had been stolen. That view caused the Jan. 6 chaos outside the Capitol three years ago.
Moderator Kristen Welker of NBC's “Meet the Press” asked Stefanik, “Would you vote to certify the results of the 2024 election, and will you vote to certify the results of the 2024 election regardless of what they show?”
The Republican representative for New York's 21st Congressional District doubled down on her claims that the 2020 race – which Trump lost – was unconstitutional, saying Democrats are a “threat to democracy.”
Elise Stefanik poses with Donald Trump. He leads the polls by a wide margin in the race for the Republican nomination in 2024
Stefanik responded, “We'll see if this is a legal and valid election.
“What we're seeing so far is that the Democrats are so desperate – they're trying to remove President Trump from the vote that is the oppression of the American people.”
Asked again if she would certify the votes, the Republican said, “If they are constitutional.
“What we saw in 2020 was an unconstitutional circumvention of the Constitution, failing to pass the state legislature when it comes to changing the election law.
“Joe Biden and the Democrats are a threat to democracy.”
This comes in the wake of the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling that Trump is ineligible for the state's primary ballot due to the disqualification clause in the 14th Amendment.
After Colorado, Maine also tried to remove him.
Lawyers for Trump appealed a decision by Maine's secretary of state after disqualifying him from the primary vote, citing the 14th Amendment's ban on anyone engaging in insurrection.
The court must decide by January 17, and from there it could potentially go to the Maine Supreme Court and then to the Supreme Court.
Trump has been charged in a federal case as well as in Georgia for his role in overturning the 2020 election, but he has not been charged with insurrection in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.
He leads the polls by a wide margin in the race for the Republican nomination in 2024.
Stefanik took center stage last month when she ceremoniously criticized the presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn over anti-Semitism on their campuses
Stefanik took center stage last month when she ceremoniously criticized the presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn over anti-Semitism on their campuses.
She applauded the “forced resignation” of Harvard's controversial president, Claudine Gay, after weeks of pressure – exerted by Stefanik himself in Congress.
“Two down. Harvard knows that this long-awaited forced resignation of its anti-Semitic plagiarist president is only the beginning of what will be the biggest scandal of any college or university in history,” she said in a statement first obtained by DailyMail. com.
The backlash erupted after the presidents of Harvard, UPenn and MIT failed to unequivocally condemn the genocide of Jews during a hearing on anti-Semitism on Capitol Hill last month.
Stefanik had put liberal university presidents first by asking them whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate their schools' codes of conduct.
She asked Harvard President Claudine Gay directly whether “calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard's rules on bullying and harassment? Yes or no.'
“It may depend on the context,” Gay replied. She has since received numerous calls to resign after failing to directly condemn anti-Semitism.
Since the hearing, new allegations have emerged that the president is guilty of plagiarism, including six this week alone, bringing the total to nearly 50.