Former California Senator Barbara Boxer said on Thursday that “there is no comparison” between her effort to oppose the results of the Electoral College after the 2004 presidential election and Republican Senator Josh Hawley’s intention to object to the president’s victory elected Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.
Boxer, a Democrat, joined former MP Stephanie Tubbs Jones in early 2005 in a failed attempt to challenge George W. Bush’s victory over challenger Democrat John Kerry in Ohio. At the time, Boxer argued that Republicans had engaged in crackdown on voters, which contributed to Bush’s victory.
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Hawley promised earlier this week to challenge Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania and other battlefield states, claiming, among other claims, that local officials have failed to follow their own electoral laws. Boxer countered claims that his previous action served as a precedent for Hawley’s challenge.
“There is no comparison to what Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones and I did in 2005,” Boxer told CNN. “Number one, John Kerry admitted to the dispute. We have a president here who is orchestrating a kind of overthrow of the election. Second, we said straight away that we had no interest in overthrowing the election. All we wanted to do was focus on suppressing the voters that we saw in Ohio. “
Congress will meet on January 6 to review the results of the Electoral College vote and certify Biden as the next president. Hawley’s objection would force both chambers of Congress to debate the merits of his challenge, although few Republicans are expected to join him.
Boxer said he did not regret pursuing his challenge to the 2004 election results, adding that his action “had nothing to do with the election turnaround”.
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“It took us an hour to talk about a problem, which then exploded on the scene, it was really a prescient moment in a way,” said Boxer. “No, why would I regret spending an hour talking about the right to vote? No way. If these Republicans are going to lie about it and say it’s the same thing, it’s their fault, and I’m sorry they’re doing this. . “
In a long statement explaining the reason behind his objection, Hawley said that “megacorporations” like Facebook have taken “unprecedented” steps to support Biden’s presidential candidacy. Hawley and other Republican Party leaders accused technology companies of censoring negative reports about Biden, as well as conservative views. Technology companies have backed off, saying their policies are enforced without regard to political views and applied uniformly across sectors.