Former Republican House Speaker and Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich claimed Democrats would absolutely try to 'steal the election' and have illegal immigrants vote should the U.S. dismantle the Electoral College.
Former Republican House Speaker and Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich claimed Democrats would absolutely try to"steal the election" and have illegal immigrants vote should the U.S. dismantle the Electoral College.
"I think if you want to set up a single nationwide count so we could have the Palm Beach story nationwide, and you could have the maximum incentive for Democrats to steal the election," the former GOP House Speaker in the 1990s told Fox & Friends."And the maximum incentive for Democrats to have illegal immigrants voting, it's a terrific idea. And I think anybody who believes in having a totally corrupt nationwide system ought to be in favor of it.
The move by Senate Democrats to propose abolishing the Electoral College system serves as companion legislation to a bill pushed by Tennessee Democratic. Rep. Steve Cohen in the House. Wide swaths of Democratic voters are motivated to eliminate the Electoral College after two elections -- 2000 and 2016 -- were lost to Republican presidential candidates who actually had fewer overall votes. Both George W.
Gillibrand, a 2020 candidate herself, said the Electoral College has"distorted the outcome of elections and disenfranchised millions of voters." Another 2020 Democratic hopeful, Beto O'Rourke, has also repeatedly called for the abolishment of the bureaucratic system.
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