Jeffries claims ‘no election deniers’ among Democrats despite ‘illegitimate’ statements from 2016 when Trump won
House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., argued that there are “no choice deniers” in Democratic Partydespite previously claiming on social media that the 2016 presidential election was “illegitimate”.
After Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was re-elected to the House leadership post for the 119th Congress on Friday, Jeffries addressed lawmakers.
“There are no pro-choice deniers on our side of the aisle,” Jeffries said in a speech on the House floor Friday, drawing applause from Democratic members in the chamber.
Despite claiming that members of his party are not denying the election results, Jeffries himself claimed on Xu, formerly known as Twitter, that Trump’s President-elect The victory in the 2016 elections was not legitimate.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, DC on March 1, 2023. (Kevin Dietsch)
“The more we learn about the 2016 election, the MORE ILLEGITIMATE it becomes,” Jeffries wrote in February 2018. “America deserves to know if we have a FAKE president in the Oval Office.”
Jeffries made a similar claim again a few years later.
“Keep sulking. History will never accept you as a legitimate president,” Jeffries wrote to Trump in a post in 2020. A screenshot of the post was shared by Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska after the chairman’s vote on Friday.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clintonwho ran against Trump as the Democratic nominee in 2016, also said Trump was an “illegitimate president” after his election victory that year.
President-elect Trump speaks at AmericaFest in Phoenix on December 22, 2024. (Rick Scuteri)
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“He knows he’s an illegitimate president,” Clinton said of Trump during an interview with CBS News. “I believe he understands that a lot of the different tactics that they used, from voter suppression and voter purges to hacking to fake stories — he knows that — there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out the way it did.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler, DN.Y., did not attend Trump’s 2017 inauguration amid claims that his presidency was illegitimate.
“He was legally elected, but the Russian meddling, the Russian attempt to hack the election and, frankly, the FBI’s meddling, I think makes his election illegitimate, puts an asterisk next to his name,” Nadler told CNN in 2017.
Additionally, several Democratic lawmakers contested the results of the 2016 election in their states following Trump’s victory.
