{"id":1204627,"date":"2022-01-10T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204627"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:35:54","slug":"harris-new-comms-director-repeatedly-claimed-bushs-2000-victory-was-illegitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-new-comms-director-repeatedly-claimed-bushs-2000-victory-was-illegitimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris\u2019 New Comms Director Repeatedly Claimed Bush\u2019s 2000 Victory Was \u2018Illegitimate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharris-new-comms-director-repeatedly-claimed-bushs-2000-victory-was-illegitimate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204627&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The new communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris, Jamal Simmons, who served as the deputy communications director for the 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign, claimed repeatedly over a period of nine years that former President George W. Bush\u2019s victory over former Vice President Al Gore in 2000 was illegitimate.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpodhoretz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jpodhoretz<\/a> I worked for Gore 2000 &amp; believe W&#8217;s 1st term to have been illegitimate. Yet when in the room w\/him I stood and gave ofc respect<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamal Simmons (@JamalSimmons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamalSimmons\/status\/213731431283830786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I worked for Gore. Thought W was illegitimate. Still stood for him in respect for office. Members of Congress should go to inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamal Simmons (@JamalSimmons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamalSimmons\/status\/817191067103666176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Trump vs Biden equivalency is wrong. Trump was an anti-Democratic huckster grifting the country while unleashing our demons. Biden is the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Democratic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Democratic<\/a> version of McCain \u2013 a good man I disagreed with. I thought W stole the 2000 elex but I still stood when he entered a room. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d2xHkgvCZh\">https:\/\/t.co\/d2xHkgvCZh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamal Simmons (@JamalSimmons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamalSimmons\/status\/1352339375577849856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel under President George H.W. Bush and later U.S. ambassador to the European Union under President George W. Bush co-authored a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2017\/05\/bush-v-gore-fake-news-fake-history\/\">piece in National Review<\/a> with &nbsp;Elise Passamani, his director of research, in which they examined the false charge repeated by the national media that Bush\u2019s victory was illegitimate.<\/p>\n<p>The authors noted that the popular narrative foisted on the public by Democrats and the media claimed that the Supreme Court, via a partisan 5\u20134 decision, selected Bush as the president. They then decimated that perspective, stating:<\/p>\n<p><em>The outcome hinged on an equal-protection argument that sprang directly from rulings issued by the Florida courts and was not an invention of the U.S. Supreme Court. Furthermore, seven of the nine justices agreed with it. And yet, almost nobody knows that Justices Breyer and Souter joined with the majority on the question of equal protection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The authors recalled how the media \u201crepeatedly informed viewers that the polls were closed in Florida, even though the polls were in fact still open in the ten Panhandle counties in the Central Time Zone. By suppressing voter turnout in the Panhandle, the most conservative part of the state, during the final hour of the election, the press had a hand in instigating the five-week legal battle for the presidency that followed. In the end, the winning equal-protection argument in&nbsp;<em>Bush v. Gore<\/em>&nbsp;was introduced into the litigation by a small group of disgruntled Panhandle voters, who testified in the circuit court in Tallahassee about being disenfranchised by the media on Election Night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Sunday, November 26, 2000, after nearly three weeks of counts and recounts, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified the official results and declared Bush the winner of the state\u2019s electoral votes,\u201d the authors pointed out. \u201cVice President Al Gore\u2019s election contest began the next day, when his lawyers filed a lawsuit in the Leon County Circuit Court in the state capital of Tallahassee, the venue for contesting a statewide election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The authors continued:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Gore team contested the results in three counties, requesting new manual recounts in two of them, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade, both of which Gore had won handily. \u2026 The Bush team wanted all recounts to end, and the Gore team wanted selective recounts only in counties that had overwhelmingly favored their candidate. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Judge Sauls ruled from the bench, denying Gore everything he had asked for. Additionally, the judge found that any recount would need to include \u201call ballots in all the counties in this state,\u201d which was exactly the remedy requested by Myers and his clients. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Subsequently, Gore appealed to the Florida supreme court, which reversed Sauls\u2019 decision and awarded the vice president a manual recount of unreadable ballots in Miami-Dade. However, they also mandated something Gore had&nbsp;not&nbsp;asked for: a manual recount of undervotes \u201cin all counties that have not conducted a manual recount or tabulation of the undervotes in this election.\u201d \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, the Florida supreme court failed to establish a&nbsp;uniform standard&nbsp;by which those undervote ballots would be counted, and they ignored the existence of overvotes (ballots for which machines detected more than one vote for president). \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The numerous retellings of the Florida recount and&nbsp;Bush v. Gore&nbsp;largely ignore the testimony (and even the very existence) of the intervening voters in the Leon County Circuit Court. Nowhere is this more glaring than in C-SPAN\u2019s documentation of the Sauls trial. Nothing on the C-SPAN archive website acknowledges that the video is incomplete or abridged. Teresa Cruce and Jeanette Seymour are among the witnesses who have simply vanished. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since 2010, C-SPAN has maintained all its recordings dating back to 1987 in a free online library. There are two large segments missing from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?160922-2\/florida-vote-recount-trial-day-2\">C-SPAN\u2019s video<\/a>&nbsp;of the Sunday of the Judge Sauls trial. Together, these missing segments cover approximately 20 percent of the trial transcript. Nine of the twelve witnesses who testified that<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris, Jamal Simmons, who served as the deputy communications director for the 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign, claimed repeatedly over a period of nine years that former President George W. Bush\u2019s victory over former Vice President Al Gore in 2000 was illegitimate. @jpodhoretz I worked for Gore 2000 &#038; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}