Senate Rand Paul and ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos had a heated debate on Sunday over President Joe Biden winning the 2020 presidential election – with Republican lawmakers claiming there is a “two sides” to every story.
The tense interview on ‘This Week’ began with Stephanopoulos asking Paul if he accepted that the election was ‘not stolen’.
‘What I would say is that the debate over whether or not there was fraud should have taken place, we never had a submission in court where we looked at the evidence. “Most of the cases have been dropped due to a lack of status, which is a procedural way of not actually hearing the question,” the Kentucky lawmaker replied, adding that he believes some of the cases’ to work for the Supreme Court ‘.
Paul asked if people voted twice, or dead people or illegal aliens, and said, “We need to get to the bottom of this.”
“I have to stop you there. No election is perfect. But there were 86 challenges that President Trump and his allies filed in court, and all were dismissed. “Every state has confirmed the results,” Stephanopoulos said.
After some back and forth between the two men, Stephanopoulos pointed out that former Attorney General Bill Barr said there was no “evidence of widespread fraud” and asked, “Can’t you just say the words, this election was not stolen? “
“What I would suggest is that if we want more confidence in our election, and 75 percent of Republicans agree with me, that we should look at the integrity of the election and that we should see if we can have confidence in the election. recovery, “the senator said.
Stephanopoulos opposed that the reason 75 percent of Republicans agree is because they were “told a big lie” by the president that the election was stolen.
“George, where you make a mistake is that people like you come from the liberal side, you immediately say everything is a lie instead of saying there are two sides to everything,” Paul said, adding that the ABC News anchor tries to “absolutely” without hearing opinions from the other side.
“But you say it’s all lies,” Paul said.
“You said something that was not true,” Stephanopoulos said.
“You say we’re all liars. You’re just saying we’re all liars, ‘Paul continued.
“I said it was a lie – that the election was stolen,” Stephanopoulos replied.
Paul said he had voted to ratify the January 6 election because ‘it would be wrong for Congress to overthrow it’, but he said the election had yet to be investigated.
‘And I’m going to work hard to fix that. And I will not be coerced by people who say, ‘Oh, you’re a liar,’ ‘he said.
He then blamed the media for portraying all Republicans as ‘liars’, and called on Stephanopoulos to interrogate someone on the ‘other side’ without ‘inserting yourself into the story’ to say that we are all liars. ‘
“The investigations that took place showed that there was not enough fraud to change the outcome of this election. It has been certified by every state, “said Stephanopoulos.
‘I have accepted the statements of the states. But that does not mean that I think there was no fraud and that there were no problems that needed to be investigated. “And that does not mean that the law has not been violated,” Paul said.