Clinton Caught In Hypocrisy Over Outrage On Trump’s Comments About Rigged Election
“So we have our problems, too.”
Republican nominee Donald Trump said during Wednesday’s presidential debate that he would have to “wait and see” before determining whether or not he will accept the results of November’s presidential election if he were to lose, something that drew strong a rebuke from his Democratic counterpart Hillary Clinton.
She described his stand as “horrifying” and asserted that accepting the results of an election is fundamental to American democracy.
“This is how Donald thinks. It’s funny, but it’s really troubling. That is not the way our democracy works,” Clinton stated.
“He is denigrating. He is talking down our democracy.” she said. “I am appalled that someone who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that position.”
While Clinton claimed to be outraged about somebody suggesting elections in the United States could be rigged, comments from her past indicate she has suggested the same thing in the past.
In 2009, while secretary of state, Clinton compared Nigeria’s corruption and electoral problems with the 2000 Florida presidential election recount during a town hall meeting in Abuja, Nigeria.
Addressing a question about Nigeria’s recent election at the time, Clinton referenced the highly controversial 2000 presidential election between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W Bush, in which fights over recounts in Florida carried on well past the election.
Many Democrats believe that election was stolen from Gore, something Clinton seemed to imply in her answer.
“In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for president was the governor of the state,” Clinton said. “So we have our problems, too.”
Another reference to the 2000 election occurred in 2002 when then-Sen. Clinton told an audience at a Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles that President Bush “was selected, not elected” despite claiming the necessary 270 electoral votes.
And as recently as last week, when Gore was campaigning with Clinton in Florida, Gore pleaded with the audience to make sure they voted because what happened in 2000 showed that the vote of each person “really, really counts a lot.”
The crowd began chanting, “You won! You won!” as Clinton could be seen in the background, nodding her head in agreement.
