{"id":1761932,"date":"2022-12-04T06:16:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1761932"},"modified":"2022-12-04T08:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T13:18:31","slug":"time-magazine-says-its-misleading-to-call-election-denier-hakeem-jeffries-an-election-denier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-magazine-says-its-misleading-to-call-election-denier-hakeem-jeffries-an-election-denier\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Magazine Says It\u2019s Misleading to Call Election Denier Hakeem Jeffries an Election Denier"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ftime-magazine-says-its-misleading-to-call-election-denier-hakeem-jeffries-an-election-denier%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=1761932&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><img alt=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_50_ img-fluid blog-img\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id \/> Time.com posted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6238239\/republicans-attack-hakeem-jeffries-misleading\/\">this curious article<\/a> by staff writer Jasmine Aguilera on Friday afternoon:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Top Republicans Are Attacking Hakeem Jeffries as an &#8216;Election Denier.&#8217; Here&#8217;s Why That Label Is Misleading<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The<em> Time<\/em> staff is unhappy that the Republicans are pointing out that Jeffries has a track record of trouble recognizing Republicans as legitimate:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe newly elected incoming leader of House Democrats is a past election denier who basically said the 2016 election was quote \u2018illegitimate,&#8217;\u201d Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c5043811\/senator-mcconnell-calls-house-democratic-leader-hakeem-jeffries-election-denier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0on the Senate floor on Thursday, \u201cand suggested that we had a quote \u2018fake president.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is rather difficult to challenge on the facts. The Congress certified the 2016 election &#8212; despite the Democrat challenges to it &#8212; so clearly Jeffries denied Trump&#8217;s election. But Aguilera explains that somehow, Trump&#8217;s denialism was more extreme and led to the January 6 riot, so somehow it&#8217;s &#8220;misleading&#8221; to associate the term &#8220;election denier&#8221; with Democrats:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The term \u201celection denier\u201d has taken on a particular meaning, however, after Trump\u2019s failed re-election campaign. The phrase has come to be associated with Republicans who claim the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, assert without evidence there was fraud in 2020 voting, and cast doubt on secure voting systems\u2014claims that lead to the deadly January 6, 2021\u00a0riot at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Calling Jeffries an \u201celection denier\u2019 is misleading and conflates different issues<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The actions taken by Trump and his supporters leading up to 2020 election and after were unprecedented. Trump stoked false conspiracies of voter fraud, filed more than 60 election-related\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/news\/politics\/elections\/2021\/01\/06\/trumps-failed-efforts-overturn-election-numbers\/4130307001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuits<\/a>, and pressured officials to interfere with election results.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t &#8220;conflate&#8221;? The plain language of Hakeem&#8217;s tweets are hard to ignore. <em>Time<\/em> quoted this one:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe more we learn about 2016 election the more ILLEGITIMATE it becomes,\u201d Jeffries\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries\/status\/964581721088897025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0in February 2018. \u201cAmerica deserves to know whether we have a FAKE President in the Oval Office #RussianInterference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It gets more amusing when Time turns to the &#8220;Bipartisan Policy Center&#8221; to match their partisan take:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCasting unfounded doubt on the outcome of an election is irresponsible when either party does it,\u201d says Rachel Orey, associate director of the Elections Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington think tank. \u201c<strong>But I think it\u2019s important to remember that the culture around elections was quite different before 2020<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bipartisanpolicy.org\/person\/rachel-orey\/\">Orey&#8217;s biography<\/a> shows she uses &#8220;they,&#8221; and &#8220;they&#8221; were an intern for Sen. Kamala Harris.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It ends with Orey somehow arguing it&#8217;s putting &#8220;democracy first and politics second&#8221; when you only describe the Trumpers as &#8220;election deniers.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn this day and age, it\u2019s incredibly easy for public servants to post something online, and a couple years down the road have it come come back up in public discourse,\u201d Orey says. \u201cBut I think that<strong> as the nature of threats to democracy shift, we all need to be vigilant and make sure that we are placing democracy first and politics second.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time.com posted\u00a0this curious article by staff writer Jasmine Aguilera on Friday afternoon:\u00a0 Top Republicans Are Attacking Hakeem Jeffries as an &#8216;Election Denier.&#8217; Here&#8217;s Why That Label Is Misleading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1761935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761932","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1761935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}