Home Speaker Mike Johnson stated Sunday he doesn’t count on to see “something like” the violence on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — however reiterated doubts over the election ends in 2020 and stated he expects “dishonest” within the 2024 election.
“I do not assume we’ll see something like that. I definitely pray and hope that is true,” Johnson stated in an interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” when requested if he expects violence like in 2021.
“There’s quite a lot of nice work that is been accomplished on the federal, state and native degree to forestall the chaos that ensued after 2020, the Covid election yr, when all of the states had been altering their legal guidelines and laws.”
Johnson, one of many lead architects within the argument in opposition to certifying the 2020 election outcomes earlier than turning into Speaker, reiterated that there have been “all types of considerations about fraud and irregularity” in 2020 although so much has modified on the state degree to make sure free and truthful elections in 2024. However the Louisiana Republican, who stated he believes former President Donald Trump’s lead on Election Day can be “too huge to rig,” additionally stated that he thinks there can be “dishonest” within the 2024 election.
“The great factor is, and I feel everyone needs to be inspired, that since that point, a lot of the state legislatures went to work to shore up their techniques to make sure that these sorts of issues did not occur sooner or later,” Johnson stated. “And I feel that that is going to offer us a excessive diploma of certainty, and positively hope that this can be a free and truthful and authorized election. I feel everyone on each side needs to be praying and hoping for that, and that is what I hope and count on.”
However he later added, “I feel there’s going to be some dishonest on this election. I feel non-citizens are going to vote,” Johnson stated.
Johnson contended that the Biden administration — together with Vice President Kamala Harris — are accountable for non-citizens voting in U.S. elections due to their border insurance policies. He pointed to Democrats refusing to assist the SAVE Act, which was Home laws aimed toward stopping unlawful immigrants from voting in U.S. elections, as a root level of concern. Non-citizens voting in federal elections is already unlawful.
“I consider, by my depend, we now have about 16 million unlawful aliens within the nation since [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas and Harris and Biden opened the border extensive,” Johnson stated. “And due to that, there’s concern, as a result of these individuals are distributed throughout the nation, as you understand, there’s concern a few of these folks will attempt to take part within the elections.”
Democrats and others have argued that the in depth litigation over the 2020 proved there was no systemic fraud that affected the end result. “I made it clear I didn’t agree with the concept of claiming the election was stolen and placing out these things which I instructed the president was bullshit,” stated Invoice Barr, who was Trump’s legal professional basic when the 2020 election came about.
Consultants additionally argued that the notion of undocumented immigrants voting is a scare tactic with no foundation in truth. As an illustration, an examination of state records in Virginia confirmed “as few as three folks” have been accused of unlawful voting within the state lately, and none of them had been non-citizens.
However different Republicans proceed to reiterate the identical considerations over the 2020 election outcomes throughout the Sunday exhibits, lower than a month till the election. Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance stated once more that he had considerations with the 2020 election outcomes: “I’ve stated repeatedly I feel the 2020 election had issues. You wish to say rigged, you wish to say he received, use no matter vocabulary time period you need.”
“Should you take a look at what occurred in Pennsylvania, Arizona and different jurisdictions in 2020, they didn’t comply with election procedures handed by the state legislature,” Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) stated in a contentious interview with CNN’s Dana Bash. “That’s an empirical truth.”
As for safety on the Capitol forward of certifying the 2024 election outcomes, Johnson stated that the Capitol Police and Architect of the Capitol have “accomplished extraordinary measures” to forestall anybody from invading the Capitol.
“They’ve hardened the services across the constructing to forestall something sooner or later from overseas terrorists or anybody else who would possibly wish to, you understand, attempt to invade the Capitol. That is taken care of,” Johnson stated. “However I feel the higher subject and the larger story is that you have had actually nice work accomplished in a lot of the states to shore up their techniques and to guarantee that we now have a free and truthful election.”
