Peter Navarro Gets Testy When Asked If Kamala Harris Can Throw Out Election Results

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After claiming that Pence has the ability to throw votes that might be “suspicious” back to the states, Navarro got into a bit of a tizzy when MSNBC’s Ari Melber asked him on Thursday: “It would follow, from your contention, that Vice President Harris should ultimately have the call over who should be president, regardless of the results in the next election?”

Navarro, who was subpoenaed on Wednesday by the House Jan. 6 committee, objected to Melber’s question.

“It’s not for the vice president to determine who wins. The only thing Pence had the authority to do was go back to the states and let the states look at the votes,” he said.

Of course, Navarro ignored the most basic point of his plan: The votes can’t go back to the states unless a vice president like Pence or Harris goes along with the scam.

Melber then noted that the mention of Harris seemed to make the increasingly animated Navarro “stretch,” causing the former Trump aide to cry out with the most passionate “No, no, no, no, no, no!” since the end of the operatic section in Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.

Navarro repeated that he had never argued that Pence had the authority to change the election results ― even though, once again, his whole plan relies on the vice president making the conscious decision of throwing votes back to the states.

You can see the complete exchange below.

walrus_operator on February 11st, 2022 at 16:54 UTC »

Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro apparently thinks it would have been OK for then-Vice President Mike Pence to challenge the 2020 election results , but not for current Vice President Kamala Harris to do the same in 2024.

Republican hypocrisy at its finest

ImLikeReallySmart on February 11st, 2022 at 16:45 UTC »

“It’s not for the vice president to determine who wins. The only thing Pence had the authority to do was go back to the states and let the states look at the votes,” he said.

Well yea, that's what the states did when they certified it.

Blizzardsaurus on February 11st, 2022 at 16:21 UTC »

No, obviously throwing out election results is only okay when Republicans do it for Donald Trump, a man who wouldn't piss on Navarro if he was on fire.