Posted on 01/20/2022 8:37:57 AM PST by Red Badger
CNN hosts scrambled to explain away Joe Biden’s remark during his car crash of a press conference when he said that the 2022 mid-term elections could be “illegitimate.”
Former President Donald Trump was vehemently monstered by the media both in 2016 and 2020 for suggesting the election outcome could be compromised.
Following the riot on January 6 last year, Trump’s so-called undermining of the election process was blamed for the raid on the Capitol itself.
Tens of millions of Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was rigged have also been denounced as everything from dangerous radicals to domestic terrorists.
So when Joe Biden questioned the legitimacy of the upcoming election during a live press conference, the media was placed in an invidious position.
Biden was asked by a reporter if the election could be considered legitimate if he was unable to pass his voting reforms.
“It all depends on whether or not we’re able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election,” Biden responded.
This second attempt from Biden on whether the election will be legit is even worse.
"Oh, yeah, I think it could easily be illegitimate … The increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in proportion to not being able to get these reforms passed." pic.twitter.com/nCyuAWSMXm
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 19, 2022
“I’m not saying it’s going to be legit,” Biden added, before noting, “The increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed.”
Both Maryland Senator Ben Cardin and West Virginia’s Joe Manchin quickly expressed concern at Biden’s rhetoric.
CNN hosts also scrambled to explain away Biden’s clumsy response.
“Well, particularly the first part, Anderson, what he said was–actually, the entire thing, but particularly the first part was, probably the most jarring to hear a president of the United States who is not Donald Trump even suggest, ahead of time, that an election isn’t legitimate,” said Dana Bash.
She continued, “Having said that, the important thing to keep in mind is what he was trying to say, and that is in places like Arizona and places like Georgia, especially, that will determine, votes will determine not only the governor’s race, but this balance of power in the Senate, you have another Senate race there. The laws that were put in place in Georgia were such that the legislature — the Republican-led legislature has the ability to take the power away from the secretary of state to determine an election.”
“That is what he was trying to say, but it’s not exactly how he said it, which is why it was so jarring. The people who know what he was trying to say get it. But still, with this kind of language, given where we are with the Republican party and how you have a former president trying to continue to sew doubt and claim that the election in 2020 was stolen, which is a total lie. That is an area where I know talking to Democrats they believe the president needs to be a lot more nuanced,” Bash added.
This serves as yet another reminder as to why Biden barely ever holds press conferences.
After she lost in 2016, Hillary Clinton also repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of the election, blaming Trump’s win on the baseless Russian collusion conspiracy theory.
“It’s OK when we do it!”
They may be planning on declaring the 2022 midterms null and void over fake ballots, etc. in order to keep in power for another two years.......................
They gave him something to read today to clarify the clarifications.
One would have to be a KooK to believe that having stolen the 11/3/20 election, the Ds would simply give it all back next November.
Let’s Go Brandon may be demented but he knows what it takes for Marxist “democrats” to win elections in ‘murica
Let them try.
After 2020 election being “the most secure ever” now 2022 is going to be illegitimate.
Brandon won the last “Election” with more voter fraud than the world has ever seen. Of course the steal will be even larger now in the next “Election” - Brandon criminal associates will win by another landslide, alongside ruthless suppression (as before) of any investigations into stolen elections. America has been overthrown by a Marxist Communist authoritarian police-state junta.
They won’t be leaving by the ballot box.
Classic Alinsky - 'blame your opponent for what you are guilty of.'
Nobody is going to stop them.......................
Amen, brother.
“They may be planning on declaring the 2022 midterms null and void over fake ballots”
That plus Dems already have a list of many Republican congressmen and senators they want to disqualify and insurrectionists. Then they can declare their candidates as winners.
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The “honesty” of the election is determined by which party wins.
If Democrats win (2020) it was a secure election.
If Republicans win (2016, 2022) then it’s illegitimate, and should be overturned if possible.
Nothing that a lot of people around here haven't been saying. Just illegitimate for different reasons.
““The increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed.””
Elections are only legit if they are allowed to cheat.
If they want to push the idea that people who think a national election was not stolen, they'll push that and suppress any opposition viewpoint.
By “illegitimate” he means that the Democrats might lose.
The proper term to use is ‘UNLAWFUL’, as an unlawful election is grounds for unseating the election ‘winners’ of a fed election.
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