Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday claimed that “right-wing extremists” have a plan to steal the 2024 presidential election.
Speaking to the Democratic group Indivisible on video, Clinton said that Republicans already have a plan to “literally steal” the presidential election in 2024.
Hillary Clinton says Republicans already have a plan to steal the 2024 election. I’m old enough to remember when this kind of talk was a direct threat to our sacred democracy. Hope she enjoys the red wave in two weeks: pic.twitter.com/gGpDQFGUlb
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 25, 2022
“I know we’re all focused on the 2022 midterm elections, and they are incredibly important, but we also have to look ahead because, you know what, our opponents certainly are. Right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election, and they’re not making a secret of it,” she said in the video.
“The right-wing-controlled Supreme Court may be poised to rule on giving state legislatures the power to overturn presidential elections,” she continued. “Just think, the 2024 presidential election could be decided not by the popular vote, or even by the anachronistic Electoral College, but by state legislatures — many of them Republican-controlled.”
Clinton then said that the “threat to democracy keeps me up at night.”
This comes as Democrats ramp up attacks on the GOP in fear of losing the majority in both houses of Congress during the midterm elections in November. Last month, Clinton likened former President Donald Trump’s supporters to Nazis and Trump himself to Adolf Hitler.
“I remember as a young student, you know, trying to figure out how people get basically drawn in by Hitler. How did that happen? I’d watch newsreels and I’d see this guy standing up there ranting and raving, and people shouting and raising their arms. I thought, ‘What’s happened to these people?'” Clinton said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas.
President Joe Biden also called out “MAGA Republicans” in Congress during a speech in Wisconsin on Labor Day.
“I want to be very clear up front, not every Republican is a MAGA Republican. Not every Republican embraces that extreme ideology,” Biden said at a rally in Milwaukee. “I know because I’ve been able to work with mainstream Republicans in my whole career. But the extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division.”
Despite their efforts, Democrats are still projected to lose the Nov. 8 elections, as the latest NYT/Siena College survey found that 49 percent of voters are more likely to vote for a Republican candidate in the midterms, compared to the 45 percent who plan to vote for a Democrat.
