America is transfixed on this much-disputed election outcome. Trump and his legal team are alleging widespread voter fraud. The Anarchists, Antifa, BLM, and Islamists masquerading as Democrats with their media lapdogs are deriding him for refusing to concede. They falsely claim a fraud-free election.
Meanwhile, there are two razor-thin House races; one in Iowa and the other in New York. The Republican candidates have been certified as winners in both races. The Democrat losers are continuing their challenges of the results. Can you taste the delicious irony?
In Iowa, Republican Miller-Meeks beat Democrat Rita Hart by six votes. There were two weeks of haggling and the canvassing and re-canvassing of the votes. Now, Iowa’s state legislature has certified Miller-Meeks. This flips another seat Democrats had previously held.
Hart refuses to concede. Instead, she has elected to take the election out of the realm of the state voters’. She’s calling on House Democrats to dust off a controversial 1969 statute. Hart wants the Committee on House Administration to use the statute to override the will of Iowa’s voters.
The Supreme Court ruled on prior cases. SCOTUS has held that the House, not the courts, has the final say on its members’ elections. Their ruling cites the Constitution’s Article I. The goal of Congresswoman Hart and her lawyers is to cast doubt on the outcome sufficient cover to overturning it.
The last use of this statute was by House Democrats in 1985. They took advantage of the same process to reverse Indiana’s state certification of a Republican winner in a Congressional race. They refused to seat either candidate in January. In May declared the Democrat the winner after their recount excluded 32 absentee votes.”
Similarly, in New York’s 22nd District, Republican Claudia Tenney has beaten Democrat incumbent Anthony Brindisi. Tenney’s lead is 12 votes. Brindisi’s lawyers have asked the courts to review the county election board’s decision on certain disputed ballots. Failing that, Brindisi should be expected to follow the same path as Hart requesting House Democrats decide New York’s election. Precedent is what Precedent is.
If the two Republican wins hold up, the Republicans will have gained 12 House seats. That makes the outcome a Democrat nine seat majority. Not exactly a blue wave. Perhaps it is more of an undertow. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and company were predicting a gain of that many seats themselves.
The result is any perceived mandate for Pelosi as Speaker is by the boards. The question is: Will House Democrats will give in to their worst political instincts and seat their fellow Democrats instead of the apparently properly elected Republican winners. Interestingly they almost have to demonstrate election fraud to reverse the results in place today.
Will Pelosi try to justify such a power grab? Will she jump on board with Trump’s legal challenges of the presidential election? The 117th Congress will be seated on January 3. Until then we’ll wait and see. Are you hearing about this from the media? Just asking?