NBC’s Chuck Todd Spars With Sen. Ron Johnson on Election Fraud Hearings

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) is determined to hold hearings to investigate allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. However, he has previously admitted he has not seen evidence that would alter the election outcome.

During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press” on Sunday, host Chuck Todd confronted Johnson over his plans to hold hearings on allegations of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election.

Todd suggested that Johnson was basing his decision to investigate “conspiracy theories” based on the number of people who believe in them.

“Let me ask you this…Why didn’t you hold hearings about the 9/11 truthers? There’s plenty of people who thought 9/11 was an inside job. You’re basically saying if there’s enough people who hold conspiracy theories ,” Todd charged.

Johnson responded, “I could have held hearings on all kinds of things…I held hearings on what I figured was the most relevant issues.”

“How about the moon landing? Are you going to hold hearings on that?” Todd retorted.

Johnson said lawmakers have to “pick and choose based on priority” what to hold hearings on. Still, he said he choose allegations of widespread fraud in the election because “tens of millions of Americans” believe the election was stolen and “we need to get to the bottom of it.”

“We need to explain it, get that off the table. We also have to acknowledge that there were some real problems here. There’s some issues that need to be explored and investigated,” he said.

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As the interview came to a close, Todd said, “You gotta ask yourself, when you tell people a million a times that something was stolen or something was fraud and then they believe it, I think you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself why so many people believe it.”