Rep. Elise Stefanik Declines To Commit To Certifying 2024 Election Results

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) declined to decide to certifying the 2024 presidential election outcomes throughout an look on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday.

“We will see if this is a legal and valid election,” Stefanik mentioned when requested by host Kristen Welker if she would vote to certify the 2024 election outcomes. “What we’re seeing so far is that Democrats are so desperate they’re trying to remove President Trump from the ballot. That is suppression of the American people and the Supreme Court is taking that case up in February. That should be a 9-0 to allow President Trump to appear on the ballot because that’s the American people’s decision to make this November.”

She then instructed Welker that she would solely vote to certify the 2024 election outcomes in the event that they had been “constitutional.”

Stefanik, who chairs the House Republican Conference, is a powerful Trump supporter and has supported his false claims of fraud within the 2020 election.

During the “Meet The Press” interview, she defined why she objected to certifying Pennsylvania and different states’ 2020 election outcomes.

“Well, I voted not to certify the state of Pennsylvania because, as we saw in Pennsylvania and other states across the country, that there was unconstitutional acts circumventing the state legislature and unilaterally changing election law,” she mentioned.

Stefanik additionally claimed that President Joe Biden and Democrats pose a “real threat” to democracy as a result of they’re “attempting to remove President Trump from the ballot because Joe Biden knows he can’t win at the ballot box.”

The Supreme Court will determine if Trump can seem on Colorado’s presidential major poll after the state’s courtroom mentioned he violated the 14th Amendment, which states that anybody who took an oath to assist the structure however then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” towards the U.S. have to be banned from workplace. The state courtroom made its determination based mostly on Trump’s function within the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Maine has additionally eliminated Trump from its presidential major poll, citing the 14th Amendment’s revolt clause. He not too long ago appealed the ruling to Maine’s Superior Court.