House Republican Conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y) will not commit to certifying the results of the 2024 presidential election.
During an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday, host Kristen Welker asked Stefanik, “Would you vote to certify, and will you vote to certify, the results of the 2024 election no matter what they show?”
“We will see if this is a legal and valid election,” Stefanik said, according to a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “What we’re seeing so far is that Democrats are so desperate they’re trying to remove President Trump from the ballot. That is a suppression of the American people. And the Supreme Court is taking that case up in February. That should be a nine to zero to allow President Trump to appear on the ballot, because that’s the American people’s decision to make this November.”
Welker noted that she did not hear Stefanik commit to certifying the 2024 results before asking, “Will you only commit to certifying the results if former President Trump wins?”
“No, it means if they’re constitutional,” Stefanik responded. “What we saw in 2020 was unconstitutional circumventing of the Constitution, not going through state legislators when it comes to changing election law.”
Welker fact checked Stefanik’s lies, noting that Trump brought his claims about the election to the courts more than 60 times and lost every time.
“The federal agency responsible for overseeing election security — CISA said that the 2020 election was the most secure in American history,” Welker added.
Stefanik voted not to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election in key swing states President Joe Biden won in Congress on Jan. 6 2021.
Challenging electoral results in Congress in Jan. 2025 will not be as easy as it was in 2021.
In previous years, all it took was one member from each chamber–the House and the Senate–to object to a slate of electors. The 2022 Electoral Count Reform Act raises the threshold to one-fifth of the members from both the House and the Senate.
