The only thing more hypocritical than Democrats persecuting Donald Trump for election denial would be a man in a brothel denouncing prostitution with a towel around his waist.
Democrats challenged GOP presidential electors in 1960 and 1968. They have tried to overturn every Republican presidential win in the 21st century. (READ MORE: We Must Elect a Wartime President in 2024)
The following facts should obliterate, once and for all, the virulent lie that MAGA Republicans invented election denial in 2020. Democrats got there 60 years sooner.
After the 1960 election, Democrats in Hawaii pushed an alternate slate of pro-John F. Kennedy electors. According to a Congressional Research Service report, Democrats disputed the officially sanctioned pro-Richard Nixon electors, whom GOP Gov. William Quinn certified, based on the popular vote as of that December 19. Nixon and Kennedy’s supporters transmitted competing rosters of votes to Congress, as permitted under Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution and the Electoral Count Act of 1887, 3 U.S. Code § 15.
However, JFK won a recount on Dec. 28. Hence, Congress validated his Electoral College slate on Jan. 6, 1961.
Pro-Kennedy Democrats orchestrated precisely the same “fake electors scheme” for which Georgia Democrats last month indicted Trump and 18 of his associates. Naturally, no such injustice befell Democrats in 1961.
Democrats also fought Team Nixon after he defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968.
Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) and six of his colleagues joined Rep. James O’Hara (D-Mich.) and 37 House members. They objected to the “faithless elector” Dr. Lloyd W. Bailey of North Carolina. He defected from Nixon to American Independent candidate George Wallace, never mind that the GOP carried the Tarheel State. After a bipartisan debate on Jan. 6, 1969, the Muskie-O’Hara objection failed in both houses. (READ MORE: Georgia’s Kemp Effectively Says Arresting Opponents Is Constitutional)
While footage of these confrontations is rare to non-existent, there is ample visual evidence of Democrats’ serial election denialism since 2000.
The Trump 2024 campaign released a superb new TV commercial that exposes elected Democrats as filthy, hypocritical liars. In this well-researched spot, Democrats incriminate themselves via news clips, political speeches, and congressional statements. This ad subtitles each speaker’s words. This should force Democrats to confront their leaders’ pronouncements.
Democrats denied George W. Bush’s 2000 win in Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court’s high-stakes Bush v. Gore decision ultimately settled a venomous, five-week recount catastrophe. Bush’s 537-vote margin secured Florida’s 25 Electoral College votes and, thus, the White House.
Democrats never moved on:
- Former Vice President Al Gore said: “Actually, I think I carried Florida.”
- “There’s no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president,” said former President Jimmy Carter.
- “By the time it was over, our candidate had won the popular vote,” according to former President Bill Clinton, “and the only way that they could win the election was to stop the voting in Florida.”
- Former President Barack Obama said: “What I observed as a voter, as a citizen of Illinois, four years ago, were [sic] troubling evidence of the fact that not every vote was being counted.”
- “The Supreme Court selected George W. Bush as the president,” former Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) asserted. “He was not elected.”
- According to former Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), “There is overwhelming evidence that George W. Bush did not win this election.”
- “The court has been thwarting formation of the popular will,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) believed. “The most spectacular example being Bush v. Gore, where the majority by a 5-4 vote enjoined the counting of more than 100,000 ballots in Florida and essentially gave America its first court-appointed president.”
Former Vice President Al Gore in Trump campaign ad (Truths Unlimited/Rumble)
Democrats took to the U.S. House floor on January 6, 2001, to undo the 2000 election. Their goal: Disqualify Bush’s Florida electors, deny him the White House, and hand it to Gore. (READ MORE: Trump’s Third Indictment Is Ludicrous)
- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.): “I rise to object to the fraudulent 25 Florida electoral votes.”
- “I must object because of the overwhelming evidence of official misconduct, deliberate fraud,” said former Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.)
- Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) objected “on behalf of my diverse constituents and the millions of Americans who have been disenfranchised by Florida’s inaccurate vote count.”
“In 2004, the Republicans won again,” the Trump ad’s announcer states. “And once again, the Democrats claimed the election was stolen.”
- “We cannot declare that the election of November 2, 2004 was free and clear and transparent and real,” Lee complained. “There must be independent testing of the voting machines used in Ohio.”
- Former Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio): “There were numerous irregularities in Ohio including large percentages of rejections of provisional balloting, problems with voting machines.”
- “I’m not confident that the election in Ohio was fairly decided,” said former Democrat National Chairman Howard Dean, M.D. “We know that there was substantial voter suppression, and the machines were not reliable.”
- “Some machines malfunctioned, causing votes to be counted more than once, or not at all,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) observed.
- Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and then-U.S. senator from New York said, “As we look at our election system, I think it’s fair to say that there are many legitimate questions about its accuracy, about its integrity.”
- “There are still legitimate concerns over the integrity of our elections,” declared then-House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi of California.
On Jan. 6, Democrats tried to reverse the presidential election. However, the year was 2005, and the president-elect was G.W. Bush. So, Americans continue to hear nothing about this:
- Then-U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.): “Treating today’s electoral vote count in Congress as a meaningless ritual would be an insult to our democracy unless we register our own protest against the obviously flawed voting process that took place in so many of our States.”
- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said, “Voters who wish to cast a vote for president or vice-president can’t approach the polls with certainty that their vote will be counted.”
- “Based upon an inordinate number of allegations suggesting gross voting rights violations and misconduct,” Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) announced, “I join with my colleagues in objecting to counting the State of Ohio’s electoral votes.”
- Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) asked: “Why did voters in Ohio wait hours in the rain to vote?” The Washington Post cheered the fact that Boxer’s objection “followed constitutional guidelines.”
In 2008 and 2012, Obama won the White House.
Republicans hardly were thrilled. However, being pleasant and polite, they offered no official objection — neither immediately after these two elections ended nor during the corresponding certification ceremonies on Jan. 8, 2009, and Jan. 4, 2013. They might have mentioned nearly 60 Philadelphia precincts that Obama carried by 100 percent with 0 percent for Romney in 2012, a margin that would have made Stalin growl with envy.
The Philadelphia Inquirer raised a bigger ruckus than Republicans did. The paper asked: “Still, was there not one contrarian voter in those 59 divisions, where unofficial vote tallies have President Obama outscoring Romney by a combined 19,605 to 0?”
“In 2016, when President Trump was declared the winner on election night,” the ad’s announcer stated, “the Democrats moved quickly to call the election stolen and illegitimate, including President Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.”
- “You can run the best campaign. You can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” Hillary said. “Trump knows he’s an illegitimate president.”
- Former Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.): “I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president.”
- “The president-elect, although legally elected, is not legitimate,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) argued.
- “He’s an illegitimate president, in my mind,” one voter told Joe Biden. “Would you be my vice-presidential candidate?” Biden quipped. “I absolutely agree.”
Democrats’ anti-Trump fetish inspired their three-year-long Big Lie: Trump was a Russian asset that the Kremlin installed in the White House. Four different federal probes found this collective hallucination to be totally baseless despite comments like these:
- “Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016,” former President Carter contended: “He lost the election, and he was put in office because the Russians interfered.”
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz (D-Fla.), former Democrat National Chairwoman, said: “What I believe is that there’s no question that the outcome of this election was affected by the Russian interference.”
On Jan. 6, 2017, Democrats yet again used an Electoral College certification ceremony to try to obstruct a GOP presidential election — this time, at the expense of Donald J. Trump.
- Raskin said: “I have an objection because 10 of the 29 electoral votes cast by Florida were cast by electors not lawfully certified.”
- “I object on behalf of the millions of Americans, including members of the intelligence community,” said Lee. She opposed the electors from West Virginia. Never mind that Trump won that state by 42.2 percent.
- Waters asked: “Is there one United States senator who will join me in this letter of objection?” She gratuitously tried to block Wyoming’s electoral votes, which Trump won by a 47.6 percent margin.
Nothing in Trump’s devastating ad suggests that Democrats did anything criminal by questioning, denying, or trying to block GOP nominees between Election Day and the certification ceremonies for Electoral College votes, usually held on Jan. 6 after each presidential general election.
As a decent, patriotic American, Trump understands that the First Amendment protects Democrat statements about every election’s legality or corruption.
He likewise recognizes that federal law totally allows House and Senate members to oppose any state’s electors when they meet in joint session to open, tabulate, and certify Electoral College votes for president of the United States.
Trump and nearly every one of his 74 million supporters want one standard. They reject violence, as Trump did when he told his loyalists at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Alas, a relatively small number of criminal thugs ignored Trump’s message and smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol. The overwhelmed Capitol Police then opened the door, and Trump fans poured in, mistakenly believing that they were welcome.
Democrats, in contrast, increasingly greet political diversity with assault, vandalism, and arson. For a vivid reminder of the Democrat Left’s explosive overreaction to Trump’s 2016 victory, watch Matt Orfalea’s jaw-dropping YouTube video. Democrat election denial is now violent.
Trump voters also want Republicans to be free to contest election results as Democrats do — from demanding recounts to empowering alternate electors, as the Constitution, First Amendment, and Electoral Count Act all allow. They should do so without facing indictment, arrest, crippling legal fees, and imprisonment at the hands of breathtakingly hypocritical and increasingly totalitarian Democrats.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.
