WATCH: Steve Scalise Refuses to Say 2020 Election Wasn’t Stolen from Trump in Utterly Dumbfounding Exchange With Chris Wallace
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) was given multiple chances by Chris Wallace to dispel the Big Lie and refused to do so.
In an absurd sequence on Fox News Sunday, Scalise just would not give a straight answer to the question of whether the 2020 election was on the level.
“Do you think the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump?” Wallace asked. “And in continuing to make that charge — not having states do election reforms, but specifically making this charge that the election was stolen — do you think that hurts, undermines American democracy?”
“Chris, I’ve been very clear from the beginning,” Scalise said. “If you look at a number of states, they didn’t follow their state-passed laws that govern the election for president. That is what the United States Constitution says. They don’t say that the states determine what the rules are, they say the state legislatures determine the rules. And in a number of states, they didn’t follow those legislative rules.”
“But the states all certified [that Joe Biden won},” Wallace shot back.
“Right, but at the end of the day, are we gonna follow what the Constitution says or not?” Scalise replied. “I hope we get back to what the Constitution says. But clearly in a number of states, they didn’t follow those legislatively-set rules.”
Wallace — in an effort he appeared to realize would prove fruitless — followed up and tried to get Scalise to answer his very simple question.
“So you think the election was stolen?”
Scalise responded with more nebulous talk of “getting back to the Constitution.” Undaunted, the Fox News Sunday anchor took one more run at the House Republican.
“Do you think the election was stolen or not?”
Scalise punted yet again, causing a visibly exasperated Wallace to give it up.
Last month during an interview with Stephen Colbert, the Fox News anchor notably said that he’s tried to keep Big Lie pushers off of his show.
“There are plenty of people who were the leaders in the Congress of challenging [the election] that I just have not had on the show ever since then, and have purposefully not had on the show, because I don’t frankly wanna hear their crap,” Wallace said. “But having said that, there are some leaders that you have to ask them questions.”
Scalise, evidently, falls in that latter group.
Watch above, via Fox.
