Rep. Elise Stefanik
Elise Marie StefanikREAD: Republicans who voted to challenge the election results LIVE COVERAGE: Congress certifies Biden’s victory after the Pennsylvania and Arizona challenges fail. Trump era closes with scorched earth drama in split GOP MORE (RN.Y.) has been removed from an advisory committee at the Harvard University Policy Institute as a result of its false allegations of electoral fraud, the school announced on Tuesday.
“In the last days, [director] Mark Gearan and I spent a lot of time considering the role in the Policy Institute of our fellow Congressman Elise Stefanik, whom I included in this message, “wrote Dean Douglas Elmendorf to the committee.” Mark and I read the audience. materials, listened to students and alumni and consulted Harvard colleagues on this important subject. “
Elmendorf asked Stefanik to step down from the advisory committee, which he said she refused to do.
“My request was not about political parties, political ideology or her choice of candidate for president. Instead, in my assessment, Elise made public statements about electoral fraud in the November presidential election that are not based on evidence, and she made them public. incorrect statements about election-related lawsuits, “said Elmendorf. “Furthermore, these statements and statements do not reflect political divergences, but are related to the foundations of the electoral process through which the leaders of this country are chosen.”
In a statement to The Hill, Stefanik said the decision to remove her from the committee shows Harvard’s willingness to “cringe and give in to the left.”
“The Ivory Tower’s march towards a monoculture of intolerant liberal views and similar thinking demonstrates contemptuous contempt for ordinary Americans and will instill a culture of fear in students who will understand that a conservative view will not be tolerated and will be silenced” , Stefanik said. “I appreciate the opportunity to defend freedom of speech and thought on university campuses across America. Congratulations Harvard, the entire Council of the Institute of Politics now consists only of Joe Biden
Joe BidenCapitol police confirm an investigation into the behavior of some officers during the riot. Republican Party lawmakers have told Trump that he takes some responsibility for the disputes between the Chief of Staff of the Capitol Army Chief of the Capitol Police account of the National Guard detachment MORE voters – what a reflection of America. “
Stefanik, an ally of President Trump
Republican Party leader Donald TrumpHouse tells members to stop spreading lies in the turmoil, Antifa DC attorney general says the Trump Organization wrongly paid the K account incurred during the opening 70K QAnon Twitter accounts suspended after the uproar in Capitol MORE in the House, he repeatedly suggested that widespread voter fraud led to an unfair election that was against Trump.
Stefanik also joined more than 100 members of the House in objection to certifying the victory of the Biden Electoral College when a joint session of Congress met to certify them last week.
“I do not take this action lightly. I am acting to protect our democratic process,” said Stefanik last week.
A crowd of angry Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday in an attempt to prevent Biden’s victory from being certified, an event that Stefanik condemned but did not allow to prevent her from opposing the election result after the attack.
“Tens of millions of Americans are concerned that the 2020 election represented an unconstitutional exaggeration by unelected state officials and judges who ignored state electoral laws,” she said after the turmoil. “We can and must discuss these concerns peacefully.”
After the riots, hundreds of Harvard students, professors and alumni petitioned the school’s Policy Institute to disband the affiliation of the northern New York Congresswoman who graduated from Harvard in 2006.
“We knew that Representative Stefanik was someone who had a position at Harvard, who was on the IOP Senior Advisory Committee, and so we thought about trying to take it seriously,” Megan O. Corrigan, a former petitioner, told the The Harvard Crimson. “This is someone who shouldn’t have any legitimacy at the moment, and Harvard is lending its legitimacy.”