Speaker McCarthy was asked by a journalist why he put election deniers in key positions of authority. 'They're my choices, but they're the conference choices,' McCarthy answered. (via MaddowBlog)
When it comes to election denialism, Kevin McCarthy insists Democrats and Republicans have done "the same thing." That's demonstrably bonkers.As the last Congress got underway two years ago, it was clear that Republicans had a problem with election denialism: Most of the House GOP conference voted to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election, signed on to a misguided legal brief that asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election results, or both.
It was against this backdrop that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appeared yesterday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” and Margaret Brennan noted that the California Republican has put election deniers in key positions of authority. “Why are you elevating people who are denying reality like that?” the host asked. The GOP congressman immediately“Well, if you look to the Democrats, their ranking member, Raskin, had the same thing, denied Trump when Bush was in there. Bennie Thompson ...
When he told Brennan, for example, that members such as Rep. Jamie Raskin “had the same thing,” what McCarthy seemed to be saying was that the Maryland Democrat, much like the speaker’s own far-right members, doesn’t accept election results he doesn’t like.
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