Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has suggested that Democrats are planning to block the certification of the 2024 election results if President Donald Trump wins.
Raskin, who sat on the anti-Trump January 6 Committee, discussed overturning the election results in order to supposedly “save democracy” if Democrats don’t get the outcome they want.
Raskin raised the alarming scenario in resurfaced comments from February.
He argued that Congress would disqualify Trump after the November election, even if the 45th president wins the presidential race.
The Democrat described the action as a necessary response to the Supreme Court’s refusal to disqualify Trump from the ballot.
In March, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that individual states cannot enforce the so-called “insurrection ban.”
Democrats had pushed the ban in a desperate attempt to keep Trump out of power.
Anticipating the court’s pro-Trump ruling, Raskin told a crowd at a Washington D.C. bookstore that Congress would have to take drastic action.
“They want to kick it to Congress, so it’s going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified,” he said.
“And then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions.”
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