{"id":2326295,"date":"2024-08-18T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T19:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-says-voters-can-prevent-question-of-election-certification-by-giving-democrats-majority-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T19:52:02","slug":"jeffries-says-voters-can-prevent-question-of-election-certification-by-giving-democrats-majority-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-says-voters-can-prevent-question-of-election-certification-by-giving-democrats-majority-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries says voters can prevent \u2018question\u2019 of election certification by giving Democrats majority &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">32<\/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-says-voters-can-prevent-question-of-election-certification-by-giving-democrats-majority-washington-examiner%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=2326295&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>In a recent interview, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) expressed concerns that if Republicans maintain control of the \u2063House, they \u2064might refuse \u2063to certify \u200dthe results of the 2024 presidential election. During \u2062his discussion with Jake Tapper \u2064on\u2063 CNN&#8217;s *State of the\u200b Union*, Jeffries emphasized that the potential for such opposition\u2064 could be avoided if Democrats regain a majority in the House. He noted that Donald Trump and his supporters are \u200balready attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegitimate-president-biden-lays-the-groundwork-to-deny-results-of-midterm-elections\/\" title=\"\u2018Illegitimate\u2019: President Biden Lays The Groundwork To Deny Results Of Midterm Elections\">upcoming election results<\/a>. Jeffries criticized his Republican colleagues for endorsing conspiracy theories related to election denial, recalling the January 2021 episode where 139 Republican House members voted against certifying election results from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-sidney-powell-witness-whom-ny-times-described-as-always-the-smartest-person-in-the-room-concludes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-votes-transferred-from-trump-to-biden-in-all-battleground-states\/\" title=\"HUGE! Sidney Powell Witness Whom NY Times Described as &quot;Always the Smartest Person in the Room&quot; Concludes Hundreds of Thousands of Votes Transferred from Trump to Biden IN ALL BATTLEGROUND STATES\">key battleground states<\/a>. He aims for Democrats to effectively address these concerns and ensure \u200dthat voters do not face the question of election certification following the \u2064next election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Jeffries says voters can prevent &lsquo;question&rsquo; of election certification by giving Democrats majority<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1693710\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) indicated Sunday that if Republicans retain the House, there is a chance they would vote against certifying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presidential<\/a> election results.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries made the remark during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/18\/politics\/video\/sotu-jeffries-on-gop-2024-election-certification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> on <em>State of the Union<\/em> with host Jake Tapper, who asked if the New York Democrat felt certain Republicans would certify the results.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump and his allies are already starting to lay the groundwork to contest the election results in November,&rdquo; Tapper said. &ldquo;Are you confident that a Republican-led House will certify the 2024 election in January?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries responded that voters would not &ldquo;encounter that question&rdquo; if Democrats flipped the House.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m confident that we&rsquo;re going to do everything that we need to do over the next few months to make sure that House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democrats<\/a> take back the majority so that the American people do not have to encounter that question,&rdquo; Jeffries said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that &ldquo;it is a reality that far too many&rdquo; of his &ldquo;extreme MAGA Republican colleagues in the House have engaged in election denial conspiracy theories.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021, 139 House Republicans voted against certifying the election results in key battleground states, but President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo;s victory was eventually certified in the Democrat-led House and GOP-led Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans at the time raised an array of concerns about voting laws, which many states relaxed in 2020 in the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/COVID-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>COVID-19<\/a>. Some Republicans made claims of voter fraud while others challenged the constitutionality of the election law changes.<\/p>\n<p>House Republican Conference Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who was at the forefront of the House protests against the results, raised several issues with Pennsylvania&rsquo;s voting laws, including the constitutionality of counting ballots that arrived in the mail within a certain time period after Election Day. Many Republicans pointed to worries about Pennsylvania eliminating ballot signature matching requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Courts eventually had to grapple with many of the&nbsp;election&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-group-tells-hollywood-to-nix-boycotting-georgia\/\" title=\"Stacey Abrams Group Tells Hollywood To Nix Boycotting Georgia\">voting law&#038;nbsp<\/a>;challenges. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Pennsylvania&rsquo;s late-arriving ballots were constitutional, and lower courts across the country addressed dozens of other voting law changes ahead of the election. Additionally, after the election, no legal challenges regarding voter fraud held up in court.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/rep-elise-stefanik-refuses-to-commit-to-certifying-2024-election-results-201488453978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in January she would vote to certify the 2024 results if the election is &ldquo;legal and valid.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in June during the presidential debate against Biden that he would accept the election results &ldquo;if it&rsquo;s a fair and legal and good election.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1693710\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1693710\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) suggested on Sunday that if Republicans keep control of the House, they might refuse to certify the presidential election results. During an interview on State of the Union with Jake Tapper, Jeffries was asked about his confidence in Republican support for certifying the 2024 election results. He expressed that voters could avoid this issue by ensuring Democrats regain a majority in the House. &#8220;I\u2019m confident that we\u2019re going to do everything necessary over the next few months to ensure House Democrats take back control so that Americans won\u2019t have to face this question,&#8221; he stated. Jeffries also noted that many of his &#8220;extreme MAGA Republican colleagues&#8221; have been involved in promoting conspiracy theories regarding election denial.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021, 139 House Republicans opposed certifying election results from key battleground states; however, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s victory was ultimately certified by both a Democrat-led House and a GOP-led Senate. At that time, Republicans raised various concerns about voting laws which had been relaxed due to COVID-19, with some alleging voter fraud and questioning the constitutionality of changes made to election laws.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who played a significant role in opposing certification at that time, highlighted issues with Pennsylvania&#8217;s voting regulations, including concerns over counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day and eliminating signature matching requirements for ballots. Courts addressed numerous challenges related to these voting law changes before the elections; ultimately, no legal claims regarding voter fraud were upheld post-election.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik stated she would support certifying the 2024 results if they are deemed &#8220;legal and valid.&#8221; Similarly, Trump indicated during a June debate against Biden that he would accept election outcomes if they were fair and legitimate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2326296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP24179722570549.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,37509,4351],"class_list":["post-2326295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-election-certification","tag-voting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP24179722570549.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326295","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}