House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, leaving the door open to overturn the House’s certified election results in Iowa is hypocritical and unfair, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said on “Fox & Friends Weekend”.
Only six votes separated Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks from Democrat Rita Hart. Miller-Meeks’ victory was certified after a recount process. Ernst pointed out that Hart appealed directly to the House Management Committee rather than challenging the outcome in Iowa courts.
“Congresswoman Miller-Meeks had a seat in Congress. She won this election,” said Ernst. “He was certified by Iowa … and now Nancy Pelosi, perhaps, will bring him down. And that is terribly unfair to voters in Iowa’s second district, and we are reacting.”
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Pelosi at a news conference on Thursday told reporters that there could “of course” be a scenario in which the results would be reexamined and overturned.
“Because we know that she would love to overturn this election,” said Ernst.
Miller-Meeks asked the House Management Committee to reject Hart’s petition, saying that Hart “failed to exhaust state court proceedings before filing his challenge notice in the House.”
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“States must govern their elections, voters in that state must decide who represents them,” Miller-Meeks told the Special Report on Friday. “This is a process in which they want to go against our state’s laws, our state’s electoral laws, against our state’s voters and determine who they want to have a seat in Congress.”
Evie Fordham of Fox News contributed to this report.