Paul Ryan excoriates planned GOP effort to challenge Biden's Electoral College win as 'anti-democrat

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Source: USA Today

Full Headline.... Paul Ryan excoriates planned GOP effort to challenge Biden's Electoral College win as 'anti-democratic and anti-conservative'


WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker Paul Ryan excoriated fellow Republicans Sunday in a rare statement that called planned GOP efforts to challenge President-elect Joe Biden's win "anti-democratic and anti-conservative."

Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin who served as House Speaker from 2015 to 2019, has seldom weighed in on events since leaving office, but issued a lengthy statement decrying Republican plans to object to certifying the Electoral College results in a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. Twelve incoming and sitting Republican senators and dozens of GOP House members plan to object to the count over President Donald Trump's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.

"Efforts to reject the votes of the Electoral College and sow doubt about Joe Biden’s victory strike at the foundation of our republic," Ryan said in a statement. "It is difficult to conceive of a more anti-democratic and anti-conservative act than a federal intervention to overturn the results of state-certified elections and disenfranchise millions of Americans. The fact that this effort will fail does not mean it will not do significant damage to American democracy."

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"The Trump campaign had ample opportunity to challenge election results, and those efforts failed from lack of evidence. The legal process was exhausted, and the results were decisively confirmed," he added. "The Department of Justice, too, found no basis for overturning the result. If states wish to reform their processes for future elections, that is their prerogative. But Joe Biden’s victory is entirely legitimate."


Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/01/03/paul-ryan-calls-gop-effort-object-bidens-win-anti-democratic/4120797001/

[groundloop]

1. Goody goody.... GOPers are starting to eat themselves.

[Initech]

12. Who needs butter? I got plenty!

[dchill]

2. Not to mention anti-Constitutional.

[marie999]

8. Not unconstitutional since there isn't anything in the Constitution about this.

It is allowed by 3 U.S. Code section 15.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Ryan sure did pull a disappearing act

I never trusted nor liked Ryan, but McCarthy is 50% worse

[Irish_Dem]

4. Is this the beginning of his 2024 run?

Acting like the fake Romney and Chris Christy?

[groundloop]

5. Absolutely he's running. I read that he moved his family to DC last year......

[Irish_Dem]

6. No other reason for him to speak out now after years of silence.

I figured that was he was angling for something.

[Blasphemer]

10. I don't see how any sane Republican can win in 2024

Making this statement torpedoes any possibility of getting the support of the Trump cultists.

[Irish_Dem]

14. S. Schmidt says the GOP is going to break up on Jan 6. Insane and less insane parties?

Don't know how it will play out.

[oioioi]

16. Silly vs Slightly silly

vimeo.com/338490074

[Irish_Dem]

17. Criminal vs slightly criminal. nt

[Gothmog]

7. Former Speaker Of The House Ryan statement:

Link to tweet

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Is this the same Paul Ryan who wants to eliminate Social Security?

I just don't care what he thinks. About anything.

[marble falls]

11. Sure. He opens his yap six years after he had any relevence and only 17 days before Trump's ...

... leaving the White House - one way or another. Where the fuck was he in 2016?

[JohnnyRingo]

19. I'm giving him credit.

This carries a lot of weight and he could have continued his silence.
He must sincerely believe the party has gone off the rails.

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. Interesting...

the only "principled Republicans" are those with no skin in the game.

[LudwigPastorius]

15. "Paul Ryan excoriates...GOP... as 'anti-democrat and anti-conservative'"

The Republican party hasn't been small-D democratic, or conservative, in a long time, you Eddie-Munster-looking tool bag.

[JohnnyRingo]

18. Trump can't hurt him.

He's not running again. The others are scared shitless of the fire breathing monster they were so happy to create.

[Joinfortmill]

20. Ok. Good. But he still sucks.

[CoryTrevor]

21. "I acknowledge that my failure to exercise any check on trump's behavior...

when I had the power to do so, and it was obvious what he was, makes me complicit and disqualifies me from holding political office in the future.”

Fixed it for him.

[ffr]

22. Ryan. Enabler.

Fuck him too!

[diva77]

23. +1000 THIS

[stevesinpa]

24. ryan is wrong...

this is not anti conservative at all. the only way it's anti conservative is they are doing it so openly and brazenly. usually the republicans come out against something and then vote for it.