Hillary Clinton has advised Joe Biden, publically, to not concede the election on election night. This advice has drawn a response from GOP Representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas.
Fox News reported on Hillary’s advice:
“Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances,” Clinton said. “Because I think this is going to drag out, and eventually, I do believe he will win, if we don’t give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is.”
Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee, lost the presidential election four years ago to President Trump. An aggregate of polls by RealClearPolitics shows Biden leading Trump, a Republican, by more than 7 percentage points nationally.
But Clinton suggested the election will be “close,” accusing Republicans of trying to tamper with the results by “messing up absentee balloting” to secure a narrow advantage in the Electoral College.
“We’ve got to have a massive legal operation,” she said. “And I know the Biden campaign is working on that.”
Hillary Clinton has some advice for Joe Biden: Don’t concede in a close race.
The 2016 nominee sits down with @jmpalmieri and @sho_thecircus to urge Dems to pay close attention to GOP strategy. pic.twitter.com/REwfLf1QjS
— The Recount (@therecount) August 24, 2020
Fox News reported on GOP Rep Dan Crenshaw’s response to Clinton’s claim:
“How bold she is with just laying out their plan like that. And we all know that’s the plan, right? Create as much chaos around elections as possible,” Crenshaw said on Wednesday, reacting to Clinton’s comments.
He went on to say that people should find it “very suspicious” that “Democrats don’t want any regulation” on “our institution of voting.”
Crenshaw went on to explain that Democrats have “built a narrative: don’t concede, universal mail-in ballots, no voter I.D.”
“If we’re all being honest and got a bunch of problem solvers in a room and say, ‘We want an election that is verifiable and secure so we all know that our vote counts,’ obvious elements of that is in-person voting and voter I.D.,” Crenshaw said on Wednesday. “Everybody would agree on those common-sense elements so you should find it very suspicious that these are the things that Democrats fight against the most.”
President Trump has been sounding the alarm for some time now about the improprieties surrounding mail-in voting.
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