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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) argued Monday that he and his Democratic colleagues in the House “believe in free and fair elections” and will accept the 2024 election results based on that shared belief.

Jeffries was asked about the possibility that former President Donald Trump could object to the results of Tuesday’s election, as he did against President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. In response, Jeffries argued that most current incumbent Republicans in the House voted not to certify the 2020 election results and that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and others “seem unable to do so.” , saying they would certify the election results on Tuesday.

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“As Democrats in the House of Representatives, we will do that,” Jeffries said on ABC’s Good Morning America. “We believe in free and fair elections. We believe in the peaceful transfer of power. We believe in democracy, even if we don’t agree with the outcome. That was part of what made America the greatest democracy in the history of the world.”

Jeffries has warned that House Republicans could object to the results of the 2024 presidential election, saying in August that his “extreme MAGA Republican colleagues” had engaged in “election denial conspiracy theories.” In January 2021, a total of 139 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against certifying the election results in the battleground states.

Ahead of Election Day, late-night host Bill Maher and journalist Megyn Kelly debated the possibility of election denial. The latter suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris could deny the results if she loses. Kelly added that former 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was “the original election denier,” although Maher suggested that Clinton’s “grumbling” was different from Trump’s “attempt to distort the election results.”

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As the 2024 election cycle comes to a close, Jeffries said Harris is making a closing argument aimed at “bringing people together” while Trump’s campaign aims to “tear us apart.” The House minority leader also accused Trump of throwing a “hatefest” at last month’s Madison Square Garden rally, part of the former president’s lack of a “strong closing argument.”

The former president is spending his final day of the 2024 election in swing states like North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Meanwhile, Harris is spending her final hours on the campaign trail in Pennsylvaniaand ended with a rally in Philadelphia with various musicians such as Lady Gaga and DJ Jazzy.