{"id":721,"date":"2023-07-22T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T21:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2023-07-22T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T21:38:43","slug":"flashback-democrats-are-the-party-of-election-deniers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/flashback-democrats-are-the-party-of-election-deniers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Democrats are the Party of Election Deniers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is worth remembering that it is the Democrat Party that has been a Party of Election deniers from way back. Go back to George W. Bush&#8217;s victory in 2000 over Al Gore. In 2004, Democrats claimed George W Bush really didn&#8217;t win Ohio. In 2016 &#8211; they almost universally claimed Donald Trump&#8217;s victory was &#8220;illegitimate.&#8221; Remember? In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/01\/full-list-democrats-boycott-trump-inauguration-233679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at least 60 Democrat members of Congress<\/a> &#8211; led by Rep. John Lewis &#8211; said they would NOT attend Donald Trump&#8217;s Inauguration on January 20, 2017, calling him an &#8220;Illegitimate President.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/01\/17\/trumps-inauguration-wont-be-first-one-rep-john-lewis-will-miss.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lewis had done the same in 2001<\/a>, refusing to attend George W. Bush&#8217;s Inauguration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has a history of being an Election denier:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REMINDER: House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries is an Election Denier <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wcMK4of5ZF\">pic.twitter.com\/wcMK4of5ZF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1680026532662657025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is worth remembering that it is the Democrat Party that has been a Party of Election deniers from way back. Go back to George W. Bush&#8217;s victory in 2000 over Al Gore. In 2004, Democrats claimed George W Bush really didn&#8217;t win Ohio. In 2016 &#8211; they almost universally claimed Donald Trump&#8217;s victory was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-election-deniers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}