House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) heatedly insisted Thursday that he did not try to overturn the 2020 election because he only voted against validating the results from two states — which wouldn’t have been enough, he reasoned, to overturn President Joe Biden’s win.
No, from the Lee Atwater Young Republican Action Book, you don’t listen, not to yourself, certainly not to the other side, nor the moderator if there is one, you just talk fast and loud and keep throwing out “argument” after attack after bogus claim after lie until time has run out. Then you smirk and pat yourself on the back and look for some oldster to scam money from.
He continued to claim that going through the courts is the proper way to conduct election challenges before pivoting to Republicans’ primary talking point on the Iowa mess.
“That’s where you go, you go to the courts,” he said. “The system says she can go to the courts — did she go there?” he asked, adding that the case was “pure politics.”
“Don’t mistake things that aren’t the same,” he shot at Raju before moving on.
I’m not very smart, I realize, but: given that both the PA and AZ elections had been challenged in court and then certified, it seems to me that maybe, following the argument he’s making here, McCarthy shouldn’t have challenged the results of those elections.
So this is like Bill Clinton maintaining that a blow job was not sex. Depends on the definition of what “is” is. Of course he tried to overturn the election. I only tried to overturn two states, but my colleagues tried to overturn two others. All bullshit.
Tossing out the votes of only two states isn’t “stealing”? TWO?? Geeze, it’s too bad Al Gore didn’t know that. The last 20 years and several fruitless wars could have been avoided.