Barbara Boxer claims 'no comparison' between her 2004 electoral college objection and Hawley's

 Former California Sen. Barbara Boxer stated Thursday that there is "no contrast" among her attempt to oppose Electoral College outcomes after the 2004 presidential election, and Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s goal to item to President-decide on Joe Biden’s victory within side the 2020 election.

Boxer, a Democrat, joined with former Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones in early 2005 in a failed bid to undertaking George W. Bush’s victory over Democratic challenger John Kerry with inside the country of Ohio. At the time, Boxer argued that Republicans had engaged in voter suppression that contributed to Bush’s victory.

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Hawley pledged in advance this week to undertaking Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania and different battleground states, alleging, amongst different claims, that neighborhood officers did not observe their very own election laws. Boxer driven returned on claims that her beyond movement served as a precedent for Hawley’s undertaking.

"There’s no contrast to what Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones and I did in ’05," Boxer informed CNN. "Number one, John Kerry had conceded the race. We have a president right here who’s orchestrating type of an overthrow of the election. Secondly, we stated up the front we had no hobby in overturning the election. All we desired turned into to attention on voter suppression that we noticed in Ohio."

Congress will meet on Jan. 6 to study the Electoral College balloting outcomes and certify Biden as the subsequent president. Hawley’s objection might pressure each chambers of Congress to discuss the deserves of his undertaking, eleven though few Republicans are predicted to sign up for him.

Boxer stated she has no regrets approximately pursuing her undertaking to the 2004 election outcomes, including that her movement had "not anything to do with overturning the election."

"We took an hour to speak approximately an issue, which then exploded at the scene, it turned into genuinely a prescient second in a way," Boxer stated. "No, why might I remorse spending an hour speaking approximately the proper to vote? Not at all. If those Republicans are going to lie approximately it and say it’s the identical thing, that’s on them, and I’m sorry they’re doing this."

In a prolonged declaration explaining the purpose at the back of his objection, Hawley claimed that "mega-corporations" which include Facebook had taken "unprecedented" steps to guide Biden’s presidential bid. Hawley and different GOP leaders have accused tech corporations of censoring poor reviews approximately Biden in addition to conservative viewpoints. Tech corporations have driven returned, announcing their polices are enforced with out regard to political beliefs and carried out flippantly throughout the board.