Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican congressman, tried to push a misleading statement regarding election denialism, but it was quickly shut down with just four words.
Kinzinger was busy doing interviews yesterday, making an appearance on “Late Night with Stephen Colbert” to talk about the anniversary of the mostly peaceful protest at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
It is a day, after all, he celebrates as a national day of mourning.
During his media rounds, Kinzinger also showed up on CNN, the only network willing to have him on, where he joined a panel that featured commentator Scott Jennings.
The battle of wits had begun. And Kinzinger clearly went into a gunfight with a spork.
“Just a quick point, both parties have always accepted the presidential election until one, four years ago,” Kinzinger falsely claimed.
Jennings countered, quite simply, “False, they have not.”
PANTS ON FIRE: Adam Kinzinger falsely claims Scott Jennings lied in saying this was the first time in our lifetime both parties won’t object to a presidential election result.
Kinzinger and Ashley Allison say Jennings mentioning 2000, 2004, and 2016 are why we’re so divided pic.twitter.com/ZGYWvwRgQQ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 6, 2025
The former lawmaker, who sold his soul to find common cause with the extremist Democrat Party only to have them redistrict him out of a job in Illinois, tried to quantify his comments. Scott wasn’t having it.
“But saying the party, I’ve never seen the speaker or the leader of the Democrats of the House of Representatives object to a presidential election. There is a massive difference and don’t try to put these on the same thing,” Kinzinger said. “I agree they should have done it, but to say it’s the same thing.”
“They did it, and you admit they objected,” Jennings countered.
It’s something to watch Adam fire off his entire diatribe only to have it shut down by a total of 12 words.
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Aside from being insufferable, Kinzinger is factually incorrect. Democrats have objected to election results in each of the Republican-won elections this century.
In 2000, 15 Democrats, including 12 members of the Congressional Black Caucus at the time, would object to counting Florida’s electoral votes.
This was after then-Vice President Al Gore refused to accept the free and fair election results and would not concede defeat to George W. Bush. He instead tied up the election process through litigation in the courts for months.
Gore consistently lost his bid to overturn the election results in the lower courts and kept fighting in the Florida Supreme Court. He would not concede until mid-December of that year, a month and a half after Election Day.
In 2004, 31 Democrats voted in favor of rejecting electoral votes from Ohio, trying to delegitimize President Bush once again, despite the fact that he won the electoral count by a wider margin and the popular vote count over John Kerry.
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In 2016, seven different Democrats objected 11 times to certifying the results of the 2016 presidential election victory for Donald Trump. Additionally, 67 Democrats , with many claiming “his election was illegitimate.”
There was violence in the streets, and Democrat lawmakers were to “obstruct, influence, impede or delay” the certification of the presidential election, just as Republicans are accused of doing on January 6.
Never forget.
FLASHBACK: The liberals worrying about riots and mobs during Biden’s inauguration are forgetting what they did during Trump’s in 2017. pic.twitter.com/lprFN76ATz
— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) January 15, 2021
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and ten other senators objected to the certification of the 2020 election. It wasn’t a unique tactic by any stretch. If anything, Democrats wrote the playbook on election denialism.
Kinzinger lost his tussle with Jennings. But then, he’s probably grown accustomed to being a loser at this point.
