Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., claimed there are “no election deniers” in the Democratic Partydespite previously claiming on social media that the 2016 presidential election was “illegitimate.”
After Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was reelected to the House’s top post for the 119th Congress on Friday, Jeffries addressed lawmakers.
“There are no election deniers on our side of the aisle,” Jeffries said Friday during a speech in the House of Representatives, prompting applause from Democratic members of the House.
Despite claiming that members of his party are not denying the election results, Jeffries himself claimed on X, formerly known as Twitter, that That of President-elect Trump The 2016 election victory was not legitimate.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during a press 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.”
Several years later, Jeffries again made a similar claim.
“Keep pouting. History will never accept you as a legitimate president,” Jeffries wrote to Trump in 2020. A screenshot of the message was shared by Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska after the speaker’s vote on Friday.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clintonwho opposed Trump as a Democratic candidate 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 Scooters)
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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 the many different tactics that they used, from voter suppression and voter purges to hacking the false narratives — he knows that — there were just a lot of different reasons why the election turned out the way it did. ‘
Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., did not attend Trump’s 2017 inauguration amid claims that his presidency was not legitimate.
“He was legally elected, but the Russian interference in the election, the Russian attempt to hack the election and, frankly, the FBI’s interference in the election, I think, makes his election illegitimate and puts an asterisk next to his vote . name,” Nadler told CNN in 2017.
Additionally, several Democratic representatives challenged the results of the 2016 election in their states following Trump’s victory.
