McConnell blasts new Space Dems’ chief Hakeem Jeffries as ‘election denier’

WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell chastised Democrats Thursday for opting for “election denier” Hakeem Jeffries to guide the birthday celebration within the Space. 

Jeffries, who reps portions of Brooklyn and Queens, has in the past wondered the authenticity of the 2016 election in more than one Twitter posts spanning a number of years after former President Donald Trump’s win, together with a November 2020 tweet announcing “historical past won’t ever settle for [Trump] as a valid President.”

“The newly elected incoming chief of Space Democrats is a previous election denier who mainly mentioned the 2016 election used to be ‘illegitimate’ and advised that we had a ‘pretend president,’” McConnell (R-Ky.) mentioned. “He’s additionally fixed reckless assaults on our impartial judiciary, and mentioned that justices who he didn’t like have ‘0 legitimacy.’”

The Republican chief alleged Democrats acted hypocritically by means of settling on Jeffries in spite of their feverish objections to Trump’s declare that the 2020 presidential election used to be rife with voter fraud.

“Most of the identical people and establishments at the political left, who spent the years 2017 via 2020 yelling in regards to the significance of norms and establishments, have themselves now not hesitated to undermine our establishments once they’re unsatisfied with a given result,” McConnell mentioned.

McConnell’s feedback got here after GOP lawmakers and the Republican Nationwide Committee on Wednesday evening known as out Jeffries for a similar explanation why.

“Hakeem Jeffries known as the 2016 election ILLEGITIMATE. Why are Democrats electing an ELECTION DENIER to guide their birthday celebration? The place is the media outrage labeling Jeffries a THREAT to Democracy?” Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) mentioned in a tweet Wednesday. 

In the meantime, RNC staffer Kyle Martinsen posted a Twitter thread highlighting 8 instances Jeffries “denied election effects.” Maximum have been a selection of Jeffries’ tweets from 2017-2020, together with one by which he claimed congressional elections were “stolen by means of rogue Republican operatives.”

Jeffries, 52, went unopposed in a caucus election Wednesday to interchange Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as chief of the Space Democrats, changing into the primary black particular person elected to the publish.