WASHINGTON − President Joe Biden, weighing in for the first time on the new GOP House speaker, brushed apart issues that the Louisiana lawmaker would attempt to overturn the 2024 election as he did in 2020.
Biden stated any try to overturn the subsequent presidential election can be as unsuccessful as ‘s 2020 effort was.
“I perceive the Structure,” he stated at a Rose Garden news conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The information convention started moments after House Republicans elected Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., speaker of the House, breaking weeks of unprecedented GOP infighting over who would lead the House.
Johnson played an important role in making an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Amongst his efforts, Johnson inspired House Republicans to signal onto a authorized transient backing an unsuccessful try to get the courts to throw out the election outcomes in 4 battleground states that Trump misplaced.
Biden was requested Wednesday if he’s apprehensive Johnson would attempt to overturn the 2024 election if Biden is re-elected.
“No,” he replied. “Similar to I used to be not apprehensive that the final man would be capable to overturn the election. They’d about 60 lawsuits. They went all the method to the Supreme Courtroom and each time they misplaced.”
In an announcement launched after the information convention, Biden congratulated Johnson on his election and stated he’ll search to work with him “in good religion on behalf of the American folks.”
“Despite the fact that we’ve got actual disagreements about essential points,” Biden stated, “there ought to be mutual effort to search out frequent floor wherever we are able to.”
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