Republicans are attacking Democrats as rigging their nomination for Vice President Kamala Harris following the pressure campaign that led President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 race on Sunday.
GOP lawmakers appear intent on hammering Democrats as the real threat to overturning elections.
Now the Democrats are rigging their own elections,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said during an appearance on Fox on Sunday. “It looks like, dare we say it, an insurrection. It’s hysterically funny, if not for the fact that Democrats have persecuted good Americans, half of the country and more — for the last three years doing exactly what they are doing now. This is a joke.”
“It is a desperate, desperate attempt for the most powerful people in this country to cling to their power. President Biden isn’t useful to them; they are looking for their next puppet,” he added.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) also conveyed a similar message on X.
“Back-room donors, Democrat elites, and their stenographers in the mainstream media conspired in this direct attack on democracy by successfully forcing out the candidate who secured the necessary votes to serve as the general election candidate,” she wrote. “As I have consistently said, it is the Democrat Party and elected Democrats who are attacking democracy.”
The latest Republican line of attack resembles similar ones Democrat-turned-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made, accusing Democrats of election rigging and complaining about disadvantages he faced during the nominating process.
Before he switched his political party, Kennedy repeatedly called out the Democratic National Committee for refusing to schedule primary debates since Biden was an incumbent running for reelection. He also criticized Democrats for not awarding him delegates won in contests that take place outside the approved Democratic nomination calendar, something both major political parties have utilized for years.
In a post on social media Sunday, Jill Stein, who is running as the Green Party’s candidate, accused Biden of being removed from power by the “same anti-democratic forces that rigged the field for him in 2020 & skipped the primary to anoint him in 2024.”
“Don’t be fooled. The same @DNC elites that put him in power will replace him with another tool for Wall Street and the war machine. We will continue to fight oligarchy, empire and genocide like our lives depend on it. Because in fact they do,” she said.
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