{"id":1762534,"date":"2022-12-04T15:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762534"},"modified":"2022-12-04T15:02:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T20:02:57","slug":"jeffries-confronted-over-doubting-trump-was-legitimate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-confronted-over-doubting-trump-was-legitimate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries Confronted Over Doubting Trump Was Legitimate President"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fjeffries-confronted-over-doubting-trump-was-legitimate-president%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=1762534&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 incoming House Democratic leader was challenged Sunday to answer for past comments questioning the legitimacy of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-dems-elect-hard-left-rep-hakeem-jeffries-to-succeed-pelosi-as-house-leader\">poised to succeed<\/a> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as leader next year, was shown a clip of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) labeling Jeffries a 2016 \u201celection denier\u201d who suggested Trump was a \u201cfake president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that Republicans have chosen to focus on me,\u201d Jeffries said. \u201cHouse Democrats are going to focus on solving problems for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George Stephanopoulos, the host of ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d pressed the issue during a Sunday interview, noting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/transcript-rep-hakeem-jeffries-on-face-the-nation-march-24-2019\/\">Jeffries did raise doubts<\/a> about Trump\u2019s legitimacy. He also stressed that Republicans are making this a \u201cbig issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked again to respond, Jeffries focused on the \u201cRepublican playbook,\u201d in which he said, \u201cfacts don\u2019t matter, hypocrisy is not a constraint to their behavior, and in many cases, they believe shamelessness is a superpower.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>He appeared to be alluding to how Trump and his allies claim the 2020 contest, won by President Joe Biden, was stolen, though election officials and the courts have rejected their accusations of widespread fraud. This followed the 2016 election, in which some Democrats questioned Trump\u2019s victory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/politics\/politifact\/2022\/10\/10\/2016-election-fact-check-democrats-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders\/69548196007\/\">often pointing to alleged Russian election interference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries claimed his \u201cview of the situation has been pretty clear,\u201d explaining his position in detail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI supported the certification of Donald Trump\u2019s election. I attended his inauguration, even though there were many constituents and others across the country pushing me and others to do otherwise, and found ways to work with the Trump administration, being the lead Democrat in negotiating historic criminal justice reform,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat track record speaks for itself. At the same time, I will never hesitate in criticizing the former president. I think I\u2019m in good company there throughout the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries also <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/jeffries-plays-chances-dems-voting-gop-compromise-speaker\/story?id=94397800\">downplayed the chances<\/a> of Democrats seeking a compromise with Republicans to elect the House\u2019s next speaker if Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) fails to garner the 218 votes needed in January, as his party will have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-snags-california-district-after-nail-biter-in-lingering-2022-house-race\">narrow majority<\/a> and there are a handful of Republicans voicing opposition to McCarthy\u2019s ascension to the role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say that it\u2019s a possibility,\u201d Jeffries said. \u201cRight now, Democrats are preparing to get ourselves ready as we transition temporarily from the majority into the minority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incoming House Democratic leader was challenged Sunday to answer for past comments questioning the legitimacy of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency. 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Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who is poised to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as leader next year, was shown a clip of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) labeling Jeffries a 2016 \u201celection denier\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1762538,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1762534","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}