Jeffries says ‘not denying election’ among Democrats despite ‘illegitimate’ comments in 2016 when Trump won

Democratic House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said there are “no voter denialists” in the Democratic Partydespite previously claiming on social media that the 2016 presidential election was “illegitimate”.

After Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was re-elected Friday to the top House post for the 119th Congress, Jeffries addressed lawmakers.

“There are no voter denialists on our side of the aisle,” Jeffries said while speaking on the House floor Friday, prompting applause from Democratic members of the chamber.

Despite claiming that members of his party are not denying the election results, Jeffries himself stated on X, formerly known as Twitter, that President-elect Trump The 2016 electoral victory was not legitimate.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 1, 2023. (Kevin Dietsch)

“The more we learn about the 2016 election, the more ILLEGIT it becomes,” Jeffries wrote in February 2018. “America deserves to know if we have a FAKE president in the Oval Office.”

Jeffries made a similar claim again several years later.

“Keep pouting. History will never accept you as a legitimate president,” Jeffries wrote to Trump in a 2020 post. Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska shared a screenshot of the post after the speaker’s vote on Friday .

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clintonwho ran against Trump as the Democratic nominee in 2016, also called Trump an “illegitimate president” after his election victory that year.

President-elect Trump speaks at AmericaFest in Phoenix on December 22, 2024. (Rick Scooters)

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“He knows he’s an illegitimate president,” Clinton said of Trump during an interview with CBS News. “I think he understands that the many different tactics that they used, from voter suppression and voter purges to hacking to fake stories, you know, there were just a bunch of different reasons why the elections turned out the way they did.”

Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., did not attend Trump’s 2017 inauguration amid claims that his presidency was illegitimate.

“He was legally elected, but the Russian meddling in the election, the Russian attempt to hack the election and, frankly, the FBI’s meddling in the election, I think, makes his election illegitimate, puts a asterisk next to his name,” Nadler told CNN in 2017.

In addition, several Democratic representatives challenged the results of the 2016 election in their states after Trump’s victory.