Joe Biden Joins Chuck Schumer in Attacking the Legitimacy of American Elections | National Review
Following the president s big speech in Georgia, I asked if the press was ready to put this question to Joe Biden about his hyperbolic claims in support of the Democrats voting and elections bills: Does Biden truly believe that, if these bills do not pass, America will not have democratic elections in 2022? Will he reject their outcomes as illegitimate?
Well, today he was asked that question, and his answer was, basically, that it depends if Democrats win:
It all depends on whether or not we re able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election. . . . I think it would easily be illegitimate. The prospect of it being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reformed passed.
This does not seem accidental. It comes on the heels of Chuck Schumer s saying about passing Electoral Count Act reforms, That makes no sense. If you re going to rig the game and say, Oh, we ll count the rigged game accurately, what good is that? When the Senate majority leader says our elections are a rigged game and the president says it depends when asked if he ll accept the outcome of the upcoming elections, that is a dire sign for the party in power s respect for democracy. With Biden hitting a new low in approval ratings today, over two dozen House Democrats already retiring, and all sorts of ominous portents in shifts in party registration and polling among key groups such as Hispanics and young voters, Democrats know that they are likely in for a world of hurt in November. By the leaders of their party attacking our election system as rigged in advance of that, they are playing with fire.