Democratic House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., claimed there are “no election deniers” in Democratic PartyDespite previously claiming on social media that the 2016 presidential election was “illegitimate.”
After House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Los Angeles, was re-elected to the highest office in the House of Representatives for the 119th Congress on Friday, Jeffries addressed lawmakers.
“There are no election deniers on our side of the aisle,” Jeffries said while speaking on the House floor on Friday, drawing applause from Democratic members in the chamber.
Although he claims that members of his party do not deny the election results, Jeffries himself claimed on X, formerly known as Twitter, that President-elect Trump Winning the 2016 election was not legitimate.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2023. (Kevin Deitch)
“The more we learn about the 2016 election, the more illegitimate it becomes,” Jeffries wrote in February 2018. “America deserves to know if we have a fake president in the Oval Office.”
Jeffries again made a similar claim several years later.
“Keep sulking. History will never accept you as a legitimate president,” Jeffries wrote to Trump in a 2020 post. A screenshot of the post was shared by Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska after the Speaker of the House vote on Friday.
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Hillary ClintonHe, who ran against Trump as the Democratic nominee in 2016, also said Trump was an “illegitimate president” after winning the election that year.
President-elect Trump speaks at AmericaFest in Phoenix on December 22, 2024. (Rick Scotters)
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“He knows he's an illegitimate president,” Clinton said of Trump during an interview with CBS News. “I think he understands that a lot of the various tactics that they used, from voter suppression and voter purges to hacking to false stories — he knows that — there were a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out the way it did.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., did not attend Trump's 2017 inauguration over claims that his presidency was not legitimate.
“He was lawfully elected, but the Russian interference in the election, the Russian attempt to hack the election, and, frankly, the FBI's assessment of the election, I think, makes his election illegitimate, and puts an asterisk next to his name.” name,” Nadler told CNN in 2017.
In addition, several Democratic representatives challenged the 2016 election results in their states after Trump's victory.
