Donald Trump gave a speech Thursday night on foreign interference in our elections, and even though Democrats have spent years claiming that Russia hacked the 2016 election and that Trump even colluded with Russia to steal it, they really aren’t happy that Trump is talking about foreign interference in our elections. Why? Because even though they were more than willing to undermine faith in the 2016 elections, questioning the 2020 election results is blasphemous and a threat to democracy.
Even before Trump’s speech began, Democrats were preemptively trashing it. Since the speech, even more bellyaching has come out. Democrats raced to microphones and social media to call the president unhinged, dishonest, and dangerous. But if Democrats are this confident their elections are clean, why does a little scrutiny scare them so badly?
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be lectured by anyone in the Democrat Party about elections. Before 2020, questioning election results was a Democrat pastime. Over 60 Democrats boycotted Trump's 2017 inauguration because they were convinced he colluded with Russia and stole the election. Democrats also denied the legitimacy of the 2000 and 2004 elections. Many still insist the 2000 race was "stolen" by the Bush team in Florida, or even the Supreme Court. In 2004, when the Bush-Cheney ticket won reelection easily, John Kerry's own advisors urged him to contest the Ohio results over alleged voting irregularities.
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Questioning elections is nothing new. Democrats have done it for years and without consequence. Yet when Republicans raise questions about 2020, despite everything we know about irregularities in the battleground states, suddenly it's treated as an attack on democracy itself. Meanwhile, the same Democrats who believe Bush stole the 2000 election and that Trump stole the 2016 election get a pass.
Even Joe Biden is an election denier. In 2020, a Biden supporter told him she thought Trump was an illegitimate president, and he agreed. In 2013, he also said he believed that Al Gore “was elected president of the United States of America.”
Democrats didn't hold back after Trump’s speech. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said in a statement shared ahead of the speech, "You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this b******t.” All 24 Democratic governors released a joint statement calling Trump's claims "deeply alarming," writing, "No amount of lies and conspiracy theories can change the fact that our country's elections have repeatedly been proven to be safe and secure. These attacks are intended to intimidate and silence voters." The governors vowed to “fight back against the Trump administration and stop any and all unlawful attacks on every American's constitutional right to vote."
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told MS NOW's Jen Psaki, "As an American, I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed that the president of the United States tried to speak to the whole nation with a whole series of falsehoods, accusations, I believe aimed at trying to undermine Americans' confidence in our system."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the address a "pathetic attempt" to deny Trump's 2020 loss, adding, "rather than pivot his policies, he is working to rig the midterms before a single vote has been cast. We won't let him."
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) called the speech "the rantings of a crazy, racist lunatic," insisting, "Calls for impeachment are not enough. We need to outwork and out-organize this craven, desperate ploy to cling to power." Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) accused Trump of throwing a "temper tantrum" over Republicans resisting the SAVE Act, telling CNN's Kaitlan Collins, "This is all part of President Trump's campaign to federalize elections, to prevent mail-in ballots and to control elections in a way that gives him a better chance of not losing the midterms."
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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) mocked the speech online, writing, "This is something to work through with a therapist. Leave the people of Georgia and the country out of it." On MS NOW, he urged voters to "keep showing up," adding, "Georgia saved the country in 2021. Donald Trump can't get over it."
There were obviously issues with the 2020 election. Democrats just don't want anyone asking questions. But why not? Clearly, they aren’t above questioning election results when they lose, so if the 2020 election was as secure as they claim, a few questions shouldn't terrify them this much. The fact that they do tells you everything you need to know about what Democrats are really afraid of: that the scrutiny wouldn't hold up.
