Pelosi: Harris is a ‘safeguard’ if GOP challenges election

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Vice President Harris will be a “safeguard” if President Biden wins the 2024 presidential election and Republicans challenge the results.

“Remember, we will have the vice president that day,” Pelosi said in an interview with The Washington Post. “This is a safeguard.”

Pelosi also threw cold water on the idea that congressional Republicans would challenge the result, as they did when Biden defeated then-President Trump in 2020. Vice President Mike Pence ended up being pressured by Trump and other Republicans not to certify the election results .

“I don’t think the Republicans, if we win, will necessarily do what they did last time,” Pelosi told the Post.

Pelosi made the comments on the same day that Trump visited the Capitol for the first time since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, when hundreds of protesters stormed the building to protest Biden’s victory.

Some Republicans and Trump have already cast doubts about the integrity of the 2024 elections.

In a comment to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in May, Trump said he would “gladly accept the results” if “everything was honest,” declining to simply say he would respect the results. Trump also insisted that he had won the 2020 election in Wisconsin. Biden won Wisconsin by 21,000 votes, a margin of 0.6 percentage points.

Trump’s potential vice presidential candidates have also refused to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election in nationally televised interviews. Sen. Tim Scott (RS.C.), seen as a leading contender for the vice presidential vacancy, repeatedly refused to commit on “Meet the Press” when moderator Kristen Welker asked him six times if he would accept the results.

Pelosi’s comment about the vice president also came after a war of words between her and Trump. Pelosi shared a statement with The Hill earlier in the day criticizing Republicans and Trump for the visit.

“Today, the instigator of an insurrection returns to the scene of the crime. January 6th was a crime against the Capitol, which saw Nazi and Confederate flags flown beneath the dome that Lincoln built,” Pelosi said. “It was a crime against the Constitution and his peaceful transfer of power in a desperate attempt to stay in power.”

During the meeting with congressional Republicans, Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reported Trump said“Nancy Pelosi’s daughter is crazy, her daughter told me that if things were different, Nancy and I would be perfect together, but there is an age difference,” he noted which was close to an exact quote.

A spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi responded to the reported comments in a statement to The Hill, writing that Trump “has clearly lost control. Not that he had many to begin with.

Christine Pelosi, daughter of the former president, also rejected Trump’s claimwriting on social media that Trump is “unwell, distraught and unable to step on food near her – or the White House.”

“Speaking for Pelosi’s four daughters – this is a LIE,” Christine Pelosi added.

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