Bob Casey refuses to concede Pennsylvania seat to Dave McCormick



Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania has not yet conceded the race to Republican challenger Dave McCormick, despite multiple outlets calling the race in the GOP's favor.

McCormick was announced as the winner on Thursday by outlets like Politico and the Associated Press, as well as many local publications, confirming his narrow victory. Pennsylvania was one of four seats that were flipped by Republicans, as well as seats in Ohio, West Virginia, and Montana.

Despite the widely acknowledged McCormick win, Casey has refused to admit defeat.

"I have dedicated my life to making sure Pennsylvanians’ voices are heard, whether on the floor of the Senate or in a free and fair election," Casey said in a post on X following the election results. "It has been made clear there are more than 100,000 votes still to be counted. Pennsylvania is where our democratic process was born."

'What happened to all the demands that our leaders accept the outcome of the elections?'

"We must allow that process to play out and ensure that every vote that is eligible to be counted will be counted," Casey continued. "That is what Pennsylvania deserves."

Every social media post on his campaign account since then has been about continuing to count the ballots, even though McCormick was already declared the victor.

"Our Commonwealth ran a free and fair election, and we are still waiting on the final results," Casey said in a Monday post on X. "Our election officials will continue counting ballots and ensure that Pennsylvanians’ voices are heard."

Casey was not the only Senate Democrat to take issue with McCormick's election. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer initially withheld McCormick's invitation to the Senate orientation, prompting a critical response from his Republican colleagues.

"Schumer is not allowing [McCormick] to participate in Senate orientation this week because Casey refuses to concede the race," Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said in a Sunday post on X. "What happened to all the demands that our leaders accept the outcome of the elections?"

"Sen. Schumer is refusing to allow [McCormick] to participate in Senate orientation next week even though the race has been called," Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri said in a post on X. "Chuck is an 'election denier' and this is an 'assault on our democracy.'"

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah also floated the idea of escorting McCormick to the Capitol alongside other GOP Senators. Since then, Schumer has extended the invitation to McCormick, who attended Senate orientation Tuesday.

At the time of this writing, Casey has still not conceded the race.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) thoroughly dismantled on Sunday CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan for attempting to paint him as an "election denier."

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Johnson — and the majority of the House Republican caucus at the time — signed an amicus brief supporting Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed to the Supreme Court. The case alleged that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin had violated the Constitution because those states changed their election procedures (citing the COVID-19 pandemic as justification) through non-state legislative means.

The Supreme Court ultimately dismissed the case after finding that Texas did not have standing to sue.

But in an interview Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," Brennan tried to use Johnson's support for the case to smear him as an "election denier."

"You were the lawmaker who circulated the legal brief ... which, by CBS editorial standards, makes you an election denier," she told Johnson.

Johnson, however, put up a fight and ultimately forced Brennan to admit that she had not actually read the legal brief — but had only consumed opinions about it.

"That's nonsense. I'm not an election denier," Johnson said. "Did you read the brief? Did you get a chance to read what we filed with the Supreme Court?"

"Well, I have read extensively some criticisms of that, but —" Brennan admitted.

"You read commentary about the brief, but not what we submitted to the court, right?" the speaker followed up.

Brennan, unfortunately, refused to answer the question, instead asking Johnson to affirm that Biden won the 2020 election, which he did before explaining why the court brief does not make him an "election denier."

"President Biden was certified as the winner of the election. He took the oath of office. He's been the president for three years," Johnson said. "The argument that we presented to the court, which is our only avenue to do so, was that the Constitution was clearly violated in the 2020 election.

"It's Article II, Section 1, and anyone can Google it and read it for themselves," he explained. "The system by which you choose electors to elect the president of the United States must be done by the individual states, and the system must be ratified with the state legislatures. That is language, plain language, out of the Constitution.

"The Constitution was violated in the run-up to the 2020 election — not always in bad faith — but in the aftermath of COVID, many states changed their election laws in ways that violated that plain language," he continued. "That's just a fact. We presented that argument and those facts to the court. And it was never directly addressed because of the Texas litigation. But that was the only vehicle we had to present that issue squarely to the court."

There is no word yet whether CBS News will label every Democrat who has challenged the election of a Republican to the presidency as an "election denier."

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Hillary Clinton tells Rachel Maddow that efforts to put Trump in jail show democracy is 'working,'  condemns election denial



Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Monday that attempts to cast doubt on legitimate electoral results and to deceive the populace are "hallmarks of authoritarian, dictatorial leaders."

Clinton further claimed that the latest effort by Democratic prosecutors to throw President Joe Biden's top rival in jail are a sign that the "system is working."

A grand jury in Georgia — the state where twice-failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams refused to concede the 2018 election and denied the results in league with Clinton — voted on Aug. 14 to issue 10 criminal indictments against former President Donald Trump.

According to Democratic District Attorney Fani Willis, "Trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump."

When pressed by her fellow Russiagate hoaxer on whether the United States has "an interest in him not going to prison so that we can still call ourselves a country where leading politicians don't get locked up," Clinton noted there were "multiple ways" to hold Trump accountable, but giggled at the prospect of her former opponent's imprisonment.

Clinton, who recently suggested Trump supporters were responsible for summer heat, made clear that it's not simply Trump who might have to be held "accountable" to preserve American democracy.

Having equated "accountability" to criminal charges, the 75-year-old said she hopes to see "accountability for a political party that has just thrown in with all of the lies and the divisiveness and the lack of any conscience about what was being done to the country," referring to the GOP.

Maddow seized upon Clinton's call for action against the Republican Party as an opportunity not only to attack Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but to suggest that "the idea of law enforcement being used as a tool of partisan politics is something that, with whatever justification, the Republican Party is really embracing and ready to run with."

After characterizing the use of law enforcement against an opposing political party as an "undermining of democracy, undermining the rule of law," Clinton unironically proposed that the way to contest and defeat the "shadow of Trump" is "through the rule of law, as we're seeing with these prosecutors at the federal and now the state level."

In the interview, the liberal duo also broached the subject of the role of trust in a democracy, with Maddow noting, "Democracy needs the trust of the people. ... If we no longer believe that our will is effectuated through the system, if bad actors tell us falsely that every election is stolen and that the only way an election is trustworthy if they come out on top of it ... it maybe ruins us as a democracy."

Clinton responded, "The deliberate effort to divide Americans, to lie to Americans about what was going on literally in front of their own eyes ... those are all the hallmarks of authoritarian, dictatorial kinds of leaders. So this attack on the elections was the most important step in a long line of efforts undertaken to undermine our trust and our belief in a functioning democracy."

Clinton appears to be a subject-matter expert regarding undermining trust in elections and dividing Americans, including those she has called "deplorables."

Last October, she claimed "right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election. And they're not making a secret of it."

In June 2022, Clinton said, "Donald Trump, his allies, and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy," tweeting, "The people involved in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the will of America's voters ... must be held accountable."

Despite speaking fondly of democracy and supporting the effort to hold Trump "accountable" for casting doubt on the results of the 2020 election, Clinton was among the loudest voices calling the 45th president an "illegitimate president," suggesting further that "he knows" he stole the 2016 election.

In 2020, Clinton said on the Atlantic's "The Ticket" podcast, "There was a widespread understanding that this election [in 2016] was not on the level. ... We still don't know what really happened."

"But you don’t win by 3 million votes and have all this other shenanigans and stuff going on and not come away with an idea like, 'Whoa, something’s not right here.' That was a deep sense of unease," she added.

Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, she said, "Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances."

While she characterized the indictments out of Georgia as the system working, in the state, she previously claimed that Stacey Abrams would have beaten Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in 2018 "if she'd had a fair election."

In 2002, Clinton publicly claimed former President George W. Bush had been "selected" president, not elected.

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On "The News & Why It Matters," BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales and guests Jaco Booyens and Grant Stinchfield talk about a viral video of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claiming that Republicans are already planning to "literally steal" the 2024 election.

\u201cHILLARY CLINTON: \u201cRight wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election.\u201d\n\n\u201d
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) 1666663214

After two years of hearing the message that questioning the results of an election undermines "our democracy," how is Hillary Clinton getting away with preemptively claiming that "right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election"?

"This is really gross stuff coming from the party who [thinks] saying the words 'election denier' is like the worst thing that you could be called, according to the left," Sara said.

"Yet, in history, we've got Stacey Abrams who still thinks that she's the governor of Georgia. I'm not sure that she's gotten the memo yet that she did not actually win that election. You've got ... Hillary Clinton parading around talking about how she really would have won [in 2016] and she was the rightful winner if it weren't for Russia's interference," she added. "Democrats have a very long history of denying elections, and now all of a sudden 'right-wing extremists' already have a plan to steal the 2024 election?"

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Peter Doocy confronts Karine Jean-Pierre on her election-denying hypocrisy



Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy on Tuesday confronted White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on her past claims that the 2016 election was "stolen" after Democrats and President Joe Biden have tied election denial to "fascism."

As the November midterm elections approach, Biden has used increasingly incendiary rhetoric against so-called "MAGA Republicans," accusing GOP officials who followed former President Donald Trump and challenged the results of the 2020 presidential election of embracing "semi-fascism." In a highly controversial prime-time speech last Thursday, Biden denounced Trumpism as "extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic."

In remarks on Friday, Biden attempted to clarify what he meant, saying that he was not referring to Trump voters, but rather the failure of certain politicians to condemn the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, or "failure to acknowledge when elections were won or lost."

During Tuesday's press briefing, Jean-Pierre emphasized that Biden is not labeling GOP voters extremists, just the elected officials who represent their interests and beliefs.

"He has been very clear that he's talking about office-holders, he's talking about elected officials who have these MAGA, ultra-MAGA Republican agendas," she told reporters.

But Doocy questioned whether the president's remarks also apply to Democrats who falsely claimed the 2016 election was rigged by Russia in favor of Trump. "If we're all in agreement that it is incorrect to say the 2020 election was stolen, what about the 2016 election?" Doocy asked. But Jean-Pierre dodged the question.

"Look, I'm not going to go back to where we were or what happened in 2016. We're going to focus on the here and now, we're going to focus on what's happening today," she replied.

\u201cDOOCY: "If we're all in agreement that it is incorrect to say the 2020 election was stolen, what about the 2016 election?"\n\nKJP: "We're gonna focus on the here and now."\u201d
— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1662483241

Doocy followed up with questions about Jean-Pierre's own statements. In December 2016, she tweeted, "Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election. ... welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump."

\u201cStolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election .....welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump https://t.co/NI7vqPV6cu\u201d
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@Karine Jean-Pierre) 1482024336

And in 2019, Jean-Pierre denied that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) was the legitimate winner of the gubernatorial election against Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams, who alleged Republicans cheated with voter suppression and did not concede the race.

"Yes - the race was stolen," Jean-Pierre tweeted in response to someone who called the 2018 contest a "stolen election." She later said in April 2020 that Kemp "stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams."

\u201cReminder: Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams.\nhttps://t.co/ZIKGTd6U1v\u201d
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@Karine Jean-Pierre) 1585845452

"With the new attention on the 'MAGA Republicans,' you tweeted in 2016, 'Trump stole an election,'" Doocy said.

"Oh, I knew this was coming," Jean-Pierre interrupted, smiling and laughing. "I was waiting, Peter, when you were going to ask me that question."

"Well, great, here we go," Doocy said. "You tweeted Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn't it then?"

"So let's be really clear, that comparison that you made is just ridiculous," Jean-Pierre responded.

"I was talking specifically at that time of what was happening with voting rights and what was in danger of voting rights. That's what I was speaking to at the time," she continued. "And here's the thing: I have said, Governor Kemp won the election in Georgia. I've been clear about that. I have said President Trump won the election of 2016, and I have been clear about that."

\u201cDOOCY: "You tweeted in 2016 that Trump stole an election."\n\nKJP: "I knew this was coming."\n\nDOOCY: "If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn't it then?"\n\nKJP: "That comparison that you made is just ridiculous."\u201d
— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1662483354

Jean-Pierre seized on the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to draw a distinction between her false claims and those made by Trump, who she said "incited" an "insurrection."

"It was an attack on our democracy," she said. "Let's not forget, people died that day. Law enforcement were attacked that day. That was the danger that we were seeing at the time. That's what the president has called out and that's what he's going to continue to call out.

"So yes, when you have MAGA Republicans, an extreme part of Republicans who just deny or do not want to really say what exactly happened on that day, or say it was a protest when it clearly was not a peaceful protest, that's not what we saw on that day, yes the president is going to call that out."