We reported yesterday on the combative and rambling “press conference” Presiden Biden held where he made a number of bat-crap crazy claims, some of which his handlers had to scurry to try and clean-up in the aftermath.
He said one thing that was particularly important. a lot of eyebrows was his repeated suggestion that the 2022 midterm elections could potentially be viewed as “illegitimate” if his so-called “voting rights” bill doesn’t pass.
To quickly recap, one reporter wondered if he felt the 2022 midterms would be “fairly” decided and the results “legitimate” if he couldn’t get the so-called “voting rights” bill passed. Biden’s answer was to cast doubt by suggesting that it all depended on whether or not Democrats could convince Americans that the elections were allegedly being rigged by Republicans.
Later, another reporter did a follow-up to confirm whether or not Biden meant the elections might be “illegitimate” depending on what happens with the “voting rights” legislation. “Oh, yeah I think easily it could be illegitimate,” Biden responded.
“The increase and the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed,” he later added.
It was a pretty eye-opening answer coming from the guy who leads the party that for the last year has been telling us that questioning the legitimacy of election results is tantamount to “undermining democracy” and should be considered a form of “dangerous incitement” that could potentially lead to the fomenting of an “insurrection.”
Well, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on the “TODAY Show” earlier, where apparently her job was to attempt further clean-up of Biden’s remarks from yesterday’s event. The show’s co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, usually a “friendly” to Democrats, was “astonished” that Biden would seek to call into question the legitimacy of election results months before the election takes place. Harris was also interested in the matter.
“[President Biden] openly cast doubt on whether the 2022 midterm elections would be legitimate,” Guthrie stated. “He said it all depends, which is astonishing to hear a president question whether our elections will be legitimate. We’ve heard it before, but not from this president. Is he really concerned that we may not have fair and free elections?”
“The president has been consistent on this issue,’ Harris falsely proclaimed. “And the issue is that there are two bills, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, that have been the solution that has been offered to address the fact that around our country, states have put in place laws that are purposely making it more difficult for the American people to vote.”
Guthrie asked Harris to give an answer, and she continued for a little while longer.
Guthrie brought things back to track after some back and forth conversations. “The specific question, if you don’t mind: Does [Biden] think, now that these bills haven’t been passed, that the ’22 midterms won’t be legitimate or fair or free?”
Harris, who had been cornered by that point, plastered a fake smile on her face before suggesting to Guthrie that we should “not conflate issues.”
Watch:
Does President Biden actually care about whether we don’t have fair and free elections? –@SavannahGuthrieTo @VP pic.twitter.com/pQmv6MLVb5
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 20, 2022
Though I appreciated Guthrie doing a rare thing for the MSM in aggressively questioning a Democrat, my minor quibble with how she handled it was in her thinking that Harris didn’t answer the question. Harris answered the question in an approach similar to Biden. She didn’t use the word “legitimate” but she made the same claim Biden made about the supposed need to pass his “voting rights” legislation to make it less “difficult” for people to vote.
She also didn’t expressly deny what Biden said about “illegitimate elections,” which also was an answer in and of itself.
Harris is adding fuel to the fire instead of trying to smoothen things for Biden on this issue. This will only encourage more lame attempts by epic spin and damage control, only to make it worse.
As I said yesterday, Biden confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt during the presser that he is a “Big Lie” hypocrite, and there will be no turning back from it, no matter how hard this incompetent White House tries.
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