Democracy is supposedly sacred unless we’re talking Trump, then it all goes out the window. Democrats won’t answer the question of certifying a Trump victory. Some objected to Trump electors in 2017 and assumed that Trump would start something this election. Jamie Raskin is expected to be against certifying period. This administration made a big deal about Trump being a “threat to democracy”.
Democrats gaslight
There’s too much that’s open to interpretation. Jim McGovern of MA said he’d certify a Trump victory, “assuming everything goes the way we expect it to. We have to see how it all happens. My expectation is that we would.”
Jan Schakowsky of IL is suddenly all about the rules and what Trump might pull. “We would have to, in any election … make sure that all the rules have been followed.” Raskin is front and center about assuming Trump will start something.
Democrats don’t want Trump at all
Raskin said Trump “is doing whatever he can to try to interfere with the process.” He doesn’t think a Trump victory will be legitimate.
If he “won a free, fair and honest election, then we would obviously accept it. I definitely don’t assume that. Democrats don’t engage in election fraud and election fabrication.” So if Trump wins, Raskin automatically assumes it’s fraud.
Democrats don’t care about civil war
There was a panel discussion February 2024 in which Raskin said he wouldn’t certify a Trump victory even if it lead to civil war. In fact, he went so far as to say he’d use the 14th Amendment and create a civil war. So who is the trouble maker here?
“What can be put into the Constitution can slip away from you very quickly and the greatest example going on right before our very eyes is section three of the 14th Amendment which they’re just disappearing with a magic wand as if it doesn’t exist even though it could not be clearer what it’s stating.”