Former California senator Barbara Boxer said on Thursday that there was “no comparison” between her attempt to oppose the result of the 2004 college election and Republican Senator Josh Hawley’s opposition to presidential election Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
Boxer, a Democrat, went with former Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones in early 2005 in a failed attempt to challenge George W. Bush’s victory over Democratic challenger John Kerry in Ohio. At the time, Boxer argued that Republicans practiced voter repression that contributed to Bush’s victory.
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Hawley vowed earlier this week to challenge Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania and other battlefield states, claiming, among other things, that local officials are not complying with their own election laws. Boxer has refuted allegations that her actions in the past were a precedent for Hawley’s challenge.
“There’s no comparison to what Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones and I did in ’05,” Boxer told CNN. “Number one, John Kerry, conceded the race. We have a president here who is overthrowing the election. Secondly, we said in advance that we have no interest in overthrowing the election. All we wanted was to focus on the oppression of the electorate. what we saw in Ohio. ‘
Congress will meet on January 6 to assess the outcome of the Electoral College and ratify Biden as the next president. Hawley’s objection would force both chambers of Congress to debate the merits of his challenge, although few Republicans were expected to join him.
Boxer said she had no regrets about her challenge to the 2004 election results, adding that her actions “had nothing to do with overthrowing the election”.
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“We took an hour to talk about a case that exploded at the scene. It was in a way really a premature moment,” Boxer said. “No, why would I regret spending an hour on the right to vote? Not at all. If these Republicans are going to lie about it and say it’s the same, it’s on them, and I’m sorry they do. this. ‘
In a lengthy statement explaining the reason behind his objection, Hawley claims that ‘mega-corporations’ such as Facebook have taken ‘unprecedented’ steps to support Biden’s presidential bid. Hawley and other IDP leaders have accused tech companies of censoring negative reports about Biden as well as conservative views. Technical enterprises have backed down, saying their policies are being implemented without regard to political views and are being applied proportionately.