Pelosi: House could unseat Iowa Republican who narrowly won race
And I thought Democrats were dead-set against overturning the results of an election!
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House could ultimately vote to unseat Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who won Iowa's 2nd Congressional District seat by just six votes out of more than 394,000 cast.
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Pelosi told reporters that the Democratic-led House Administration Committee "is following the law," in its review of the election, and it could ultimately result in a move to force out the first-term Iowa Republican.
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"We will see where that takes us, but there could be a scenario to that extent," Pelosi said.
Democratic candidate Rita Hart has contested her narrow loss to Miller-Meeks, leaving the House Administration Committee to decide her case. Hart believes 22 ballots were wrongfully discarded, and if they were counted, she would have a nine-vote victory.
House Administration Republicans want Democrats to dismiss Hart's case, but the committee voted Wednesday to table a motion to dismiss Hart's claim.
The Democrats control a very narrow majority of just a handful of seats, so the Miller-Meeks seat is critical.
In January, Pelosi "provisionally" seated Miller-Meeks. If the House Administration Committee decides to investigate Hart's claim, they could ultimately direct the Democratic-led House to vote to unseat Miller-Meeks.
Pelosi called such a scenario "a hypothetical."
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You can only laugh. Such hypocrisy.
I thought you were all about stopping the steal.
No I don't think Iowa was trying to steal the election but Ms Hart has contested it. Trump filed dozens of lawsuits after the election was certified by all states and got his days in court. That's a precedent. Ms. Hart deserves some consideration. Personally, I don't think she has much of a chance.
By 'hypocrisy' are you comparing this to Trump's con-job post his loss? If so, then this is not even on the same scale.
However, if the House simply unseats Miller-Meeks on the grounds that she actually lost the election and the state of Iowa holds that she did in fact win, then the House would (seems to me) be engaged in an unconstitutional act. They have the power to unseat, but that is based on behavior ... not on their disagreeing with the certified results of an election in a state.
So you disagree with the idea of Congress interfering with certified state election results? You actually disagree with Trump on something?
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It's hard to ignore the hypocrisy of Democrats on this. First, they were offended by Republicans protesting the presidential election results, just as they did in 2016 and years previous. Now they are actually having a committee of the House consider an objection to a certified election.
If the law allows it, then go for it, but at least don't scream bloody murder when the other side does it, too.
I cannot blame the Ds for objecting to the Rs supporting Trump's con. That was an attempt to steal the presidency based on compounded lies.
And I similarly would not support the Ds if they attempted to overturn the certified results of this election if the state of Iowa, after investigating the facts in question, holds to their original certification.
In both cases I am against attempts of elected officials to use their elected powers to violate the will of the electorate. What is 'right' is for the states to investigate credible allegations of fraud or error and then to certify accordingly. Congress should step in only if there is cause to believe the state officials themselves are corrupt.
That said, comparing this hypothetical situation to what Trump, et. al. did post election is a scale mismatch. It is like comparing shoplifting with robbing Fort Knox. Both are wrong and both are theft, but that is where the similarity ends.