Election denier Hakeem Jeffries is at it again
Zachary Faria
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is one of the biggest election deniers in Congress, and he still won’t quit his election conspiracy theories.
His latest outburst came after the Supreme Court decided that Alabama’s congressional districts didn’t hit the arbitrary racial quotas the court decided it should, demanding that the state create a second majority-black district. Perhaps this “racial balkanization” from the Supreme Court is the “systemic racism” we have heard so much about in recent years.
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The Supreme Court then gave lower courts the green light to shoot down Louisiana’s congressional district map on the same grounds. This inspired Jeffries to return to his comfort zone of delegitimizing all elections that Democrats lose. “It is increasingly clear that Extreme MAGA Republicans secured a House majority based on unlawfully gerrymandered congressional maps,” Jeffries said. “We will make sure the American people decide who represents them in Congress.”
That’s right. The man who thinks the 2016 presidential election was stolen and that Republicans want to steal every election through voter suppression thinks Republicans winning the House of Representatives in 2022 was illegitimate. Who could have guessed?
Jeffries’s problem, aside from being a conspiracy theorist on the level of the “extreme MAGA Republicans” he opposes, is that he contradicts himself. The Supreme Court thinks Alabama and possibly Louisiana have a large enough black population that black representatives are entitled to a higher proportion of their state’s congressional seats. (Yes, it is still as wildly racist as it sounds).
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And yet House Republicans in 2022 won 50.6% of House votes cast, compared to 47.8% for House Democrats. Republicans control 51% of House seats compared to 49% for Democrats. Either those proportions matter, or they don’t. Given that Jeffries thinks they matter for black voters and that he also thinks the “popular vote” should decide who gets power in Washington, D.C., his assertion that the GOP House majority is illegitimate is based on nothing other than the fact that he doesn’t like that Democrats lost.
That is how all election deniers operate, and Jeffries is one of the most prominent ones in our politics today. Lucky for him, he is a Democrat, which means no one in establishment media will ask him about his “dangerous” rhetoric or how he is eroding faith in our democratic system. Jeffries has a long career of election denial ahead of him, and he will rarely, if ever, have to answer for it.