FROM FOX NEWS: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., briefly sparred with CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Sunday over his claims that President Donald Trump will “rig” the midterm elections.
During an interview on “Face the Nation,” Brennan pressed the New York representative about his past comments insisting there were “no election deniers” in the Democratic Party despite recently suggesting the upcoming midterms could be “rigged elections.”
Brennan was rattled by Jeffries’ statement, asking, “Democrats were appalled when President Trump used language like that. How do you justify using that now? Doesn’t that undermine faith for [the] voters you need to show up?”
“No,” Jeffries answered. “I’ve been using that term in the context of Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to gerrymander congressional maps in a partisan fashion all across the country in order to rig the midterm elections and deny the ability of the American people to actually decide who should be in the majority as it relates to the House of Representatives.”
“You know Democrats are also going through gerrymandering and redistricting,” Brennan said.
“No. No. No. Well, Democrats are going to push back aggressively to make sure that we have fair maps across the country, not partisan gerrymandering, which Republicans have initiated in state after state after state,” Jeffries insisted.
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