Comer slams ultimate hypocrite Raskin after House Dem refuses to promise to certify a Trump victory

House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., criticized Rep.Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Friday, calling him “the ultimate hypocrite” in response to a new report in which Raskin stopped short of committing to certify a potential 2024 presidential win for former President Trump.“Ranking member Raskin is the ultimate hypocrite,” Comer told Fox News Digital.

“He talks a big game about ‘saving democracy’ yet actively undermines it by sowing seeds of doubt in America’s free and fair elections when it benefits him to do so.”Comer slammed Raskin as “a two-time election denier,” saying Raskin “suggested the 2000 election was illegitimate and didn’t certify election results when Trump won the White House in 2016.”“Now ranking member Raskin is signaling he’d do the same if Trump wins again in November.Raskin doesn’t care at all about democracy.

He only cares about putting a Democrat in the White House whatever the cost,” Comer said. Raskin, the top Democrat on the committee and a former Jan.6 committee member, told Axios in a report published Thursday if former President Trump “won a free, fair and honest election, then we would obviously accept it.” The report continued to say that Raskin said he “definitely” does not assume the former president will employ “free, fair and honest means” to win the Oval Office.Trump “is doing whatever he can to try to interfere with the process, whether we’re talking about manipulating electoral college counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote count in Georgia or imposing other kinds of impediments,” Raskin told Axios. Several other Democratic members of Congress shared Raskin’s sentiments, including Illinois Rep.

Jan Schakowsky and Massachusetts Rep.Jim McGovern.

McGovern told Axios Democrats will certify a Trump win “assuming everything goes the way we expect it to.” Rep.Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., also called the Democrats’ statements “the most predictable hypocrisy in pol...