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Should Democrats ditch Speaker Nancy Pelosi for new leadership?

2020-12-23 | 🔗
Iowa GOP Rep.-elect Mariannette Miller-Meeks reacts to Democratic dissension on 'Fox & Friends'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
I do think that we need new. I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic party. Are you ready to say Pelosi and Schumer need to go? I mean I, I think, so we need to to shift power. We need to make sure that we have a transition of power in the leadership of the Democratic Party PETE. We told you about congresswoman and so called Squad Member Comrade Cortez calling to remove Nancy Pelosi, insisting its time for a change, and apparently she is not alone. As a new poll finds, a majority of voters agree with her fifty six percent of them. Saying Democrats should replace Nancy Pelosi with a new leader here to react. Iowa g dot, Op Congressman Elect Marinette Miller Meeks. Thank you for being with us, demanding that the presidential result be accepted in had your race, which is close and has been certified in your direction. She
will not recognize that certification. So can you have it both ways and is Nancy Pelosi Fit to be speaker being you cant? Have it both ways? All opponent has, instead of going through the Iowa court system, filed a petition with the House Committee on administration to have Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats overturn and disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters in Iowa. The best way to replace Nancy Pelosi is give us a majority in twenty twenty two and we will replace Nancy Pelosi right now. You dont feel like inside the democrat calculation. There is enough votes to overturn establishment, traditional campaign money Washington and go in another direction. Well, I havent been spending all my time in Washington, D, dot c, except for orientation. Pete thats true, but I think you know, Nancy Pelosi is a very savvy politician. She has been at this for a very long time and they have to look at their leadership
but, as I said, we tried to replace Nancy Pelosi by getting the majority. We came very close this election cycle and we can replace Nancy Pelosi in twenty twenty two by electing a majority of Republicans to take back the House PETE. Now, as you said, the balance in the house is close, its still controlled by Democrats, but much thinner than people anticipated. Your election, which was won by six votes, was certified in Iowa. Do you have a concern that once it goes to the House floor in Washington in January, is there a chance they could try to see the your opponent instead and then create a big old mess? Well, certainly- and in Iowa we have are a very good election process of we put through legislation this past session in order to make our absentee ballot request and ballots are mailed in after a request that they were safe and that they were secure trying to minimize voter fraud. So we had an election process on
election night. I won, then our twenty four counties in our district had their county canvas and certified those results to the Secretary of state. At that time I was ahead. Then our opponent had a recount of which they really helped to drive how the recount was conducted and in Johnson County, one of our larger counties. The recount board, looked it over sixty one thousand absentee ballots looked at them held them, so we had an extensive recount process at the end of that recount process. I was still ahead. Six votes now she want to change the rules. She stunt want to abide by the rulings we had and appeal to the house. She should have gone to the Iowa court. She could have gone to the Iowa Courts and she said there wasnt enough time in an interview with a local media outlet. Here in Iowa, she said we had to appeal to the House Committee on administration to get the results we need, and that tells you everything you need to know that you know and they filed their petition and they said there were twenty two ballots, certainly more than enough time
for impartial, neutral, Iowa judges to look at twenty two ballots and decide what had to happen with this election. So this is a you know, partisan political power play trying to get Washington D, DOT C and Nancy Pelosi, one vote from California to overturn the election and the voters in Iowa and disenfranchise. As I said, hundreds of thousands of voters- PETE yeah, if you have cant get what you want from Iowa, then go to your friends in Washington D, DOT c January sixth is going to be an interesting date on a lot of levels. Dr Mariannette Miller, Meeks.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-23.