House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is lambasting Republicans for supporting a lawsuit seeking to overturn election results in four states.
She penned a letter to her Democratic colleagues to suggest Republicans are disregarding the Constitution in their efforts to help President Donald Trump.
Pelosi emphasized the toll the COVID-19 pandemic is taking on the nation and criticized Republicans for failing to focus on the issue at hand.
“Instead, Republicans are engaged in election subversion that imperils our democracy,” Pelosi wrote.
She noted 126 House Republicans threw their support behind a Texas lawsuit demanding Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin overturn election results.
“This lawsuit is an act of flailing GOP desperation, which violates the principles enshrined in our American Democracy,” Pelosi said.
She continued, “As Members of Congress, we take a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution. Republicans are subverting the Constitution by their reckless and fruitless assault on our democracy which threatens to seriously erode public trust in our most sacred democratic institutions, and to set back our progress on the urgent challenges ahead.”
Some Republicans have expressed their concerns with the lawsuit, including Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), as IJR previously reported.
“That doesn’t sound like a very Republican argument to me. I mean our position, my position, Republicans believe that states are in charge of elections and Texas is a big state, but I don’t know exactly why it has a right to tell four other states how to run their elections,” Alexander said.
He went on, “I’m having a hard time figuring out the basis for that lawsuit.”
The president reiterated on Twitter Thursday his refusal to accept the election results and proceeded to call Biden an “illegitimate president,” as IJR previously reported.
“How can you give an election to someone who lost the election by hundreds of thousands of legal votes in each of the swing states. How can a country be run by an illegitimate president?” Trump tweeted.
His claims of widespread voter fraud are unsubstantiated.
