Senator Explains Spat in Fraud Hearing

Juliet Song
By Juliet Song
December 19, 2020NTD Evening News
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) explains what’s behind his spat with Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), after a Wednesday hearing on voter fraud grew heated at one point.

The two are top members of the government body that hosted the hearing. Johnson is the chairman and a Republican, while Peters is the top ranking Democrat there. Johnson insisted a hearing on alleged voter fraud is necessary, because of a serious problem.

“The fact that our last two presidential elections have not been accepted as legitimate by large percentages of the American public is a serious problem that threatens our republic,” Johnson said.

“But even though courts have handed down decisions and the Electoral College has awarded Joe Biden 306 electoral votes, a large percentage of the American public does not believe the November election results are legitimate. This is not a sustainable state of affairs in our democratic republic,” Johnson said.

But Peters called the hearing “dangerous.”

“Let me be clear, deciding to move forward with this hearing is still dangerous. Elected leaders who are chosen by the voters to help uphold our institutions and democratic values, spent weeks either turning a blind eye or parroting provocative rhetoric and false claims about this election,” Peters said.

“Many elected officials gave the president and his supporters license to spread damaging lies about the election. We have known for weeks that there was no widespread voter fraud,” he said.

Peters earlier accused Johnson’s probe of Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings as pushing Russian disinformation.

Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, Johnson said, “Here he is, at a hearing that has nothing to do with Russian disinformation, talking about that like this is a hearing on Russian disinformation,” adding that’s why he decided to call out Peters.

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