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LA Congressman Scalise Won't Say 2020 Election Wasn't Stolen

Courtesy: Fox News Sunday
Credit Courtesy: Fox News Sunday
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Courtesy: Fox News Sunday

 GOP WHIP WON’T SAY — The U,S, House of Representatives  second-ranking  Republican, Minority Whip  Steve Scalise,  is refusing to say whether or not  the  2020 presidential  election was legitimate.  In a television interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday,  the Louisiana congressman was repeatedly  asked  directly  if he thought the 2020 Presidential Election was stolen,   a claim former President Trump has repeatedly made since Joe Biden was certified as President by Congress.

WALLACE:  (Asks Scalise)  Do you think the election was stolen or not? I understand you  think there were irregularities and things that need to be fixed. Do you think the election was stolen? 

SCALISE:  And it's not just irregularities. It's states that did not follow the laws set which the Constitution says they're supposed to follow. When you see states like Georgia cleaning up some of the mess, and people  calling that Jim Crow law, that's a flat-out lie. I think people believe --

WALLACE:  That's the new law.

SCALISE:  -- against that sort of thing.

WALLACE:  All right.

It's been more than 11 months after Americans picked their president and almost nine months since Biden was inaugurated.  But Scalise  is unwilling to acknowledge the legitimacy of the vote, instead sticking to his belief that the election results  shouldn't have been certified by Congress.  Scalise argues that states didn't follow the Constitution, a reference to a legal argument that was  rejected  by the U.S. Supreme Court.

 When asked if he thinks the 2020 election was stolen, Louisiana GOP Congressman Steve Scalise wouldn't say and instead claims some states didn't follow the Constitution, a claim rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' experience to Red River Radio having started out as a radio news reporter and moving into television journalism as a newsmagazine producer / host, talk-show moderator, programming director and managing producer and news director / anchor for commercial, public broadcasting and educational television. He has more recently worked in advertising, marketing and public relations as a writer, video producer and media consultant. In pursuit of higher learning, Chuck studied Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.