House Oversight Chairman James Comer questioned Rep. Jamie Raskin’s commitment to democracy on Friday, declaring the Maryland Democrat would rebuff the 2024 presidential election results if Donald Trump retakes the White House.
The accusations by Comer (R-Ky) come after the release of a new report in which Raskin – the top Democrat on the House Oversight committee and a former Jan. 6 committee member – said he “definitely” does not expect the former president to observe “free, fair and honest means” to win the Nov. 5 election, according to reports.
“Ranking member Raskin is the ultimate hypocrite,” Comer told Fox News Digital. “He talks a big game about ‘saving democracy’ yet actively undermines it by sowing seeds of doubt in America’s free and fair elections when it benefits him to do so.”
The Kentucky Republican suggested Raskin doesn’t care about democracy and only wants a Democrat in the White House “whatever the cost,” accusing Raskin of being “a two-time election denier.”
Comer claimed Raskin once suggested the 2000 election was illegitimate and then failed to certify the election results when Trump won the presidency in 2016.
“Now ranking member Raskin is signaling he’d do the same if Trump wins again in November,” Comer said, according to Fox.
Raskin told Axios in a report published Thursday that if the former president “won a free, fair and honest election, then we would obviously accept it” but believes Trump will do whatever he can to interfere with the process.
Raskin added that the Democratic Party is one of democracy and the rule of law and believes Trump could manipulate the electoral college counts in Nebraska or the vote count in Georgia, among other kinds of obstructions, Fox reported.
“Trump and his followers have tried to use fraud, deceit, lies, coercion, trickery, voter suppression and mass insurrectionary violence to seize power against the rules of our constitutional order,” Raskin told Fox.
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He pressed he would be a staunch protector of American constitutional democracy when up against “big lies, political coups and violent insurrections.”
“And I certainly won’t get into the mud with Chairman Comer and call him a hypocrite because that would imply he has some principles and ideals to betray,” Raskin said.
Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern agreed with Raskin, telling Axios that Democrats will certify a Trump win “assuming everything goes the way we expect it to.”
But New York Rep. Elise Stefanik blasted Democrats for their “predictable hypocrisy.”
“After years of the radical left’s stenographers in the mainstream media, corporate special interest groups and radical Democrats viciously smearing President Trump and Republicans for standing up for election integrity, now 24 days until Election Day, far left Democrats are claiming that a President Trump victory would be illegitimate, and the mainstream media remains silent,” Stefanik told Fox.
House Speaker Mike Johnson sparked fury among Democrats last month after he said he would adhere to the constitution and certify Vice President Kamala Harris’ potential win if the election is “free, fair and safe.”
Trump’s running mate – Ohio Sen. JD Vance – has also come under fire after repeatedly saying in interviews that he would not have voted to certify the 2020 election results in January 2021.
