Axios reports:
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) are at each other’s throats over which party can truly be trusted to certify the 2024 election, Axios has learned. Johnson enraged Democrats in September by saying that, if he is speaker on Jan. 6, the House would “follow the Constitution” on certifying a win for Vice President Harris as long as the election is “free, fair and safe.”
In an appearance Monday on Good Morning America, Jeffries noted that a majority of House Republicans voted to object to President Biden’s electors in Arizona and Pennsylvania in 2021. “My colleagues on the other side of the aisle don’t seem to be capable of unequivocally saying that they will certify the election and the verdict that is rendered by the American people,” he said.
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