Elise Stefanik Refuses to Commit to Certifying 2024 Election Results in Stunning Exchange With NBC’s Kristen Welker

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) would not commit to certifying the results of the 2024 election in a stunning NBC interview on Sunday.

NBC anchor Kristen Welker put the question directly to the New York congresswoman during a tense showdown on Meet the Press.

“Would you vote to certify, and will you vote to certify the results of the 2024 election, no matter what they show?” Welker asked.

Stefanik pivoted — attacking the recent move by the state Supreme Court in Colorado to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot.

“We will see if this is a legal and valid election,” Stefanik said. “What we’re seeing so far is that Democrats are so desperate they’re trying to remove President Trump from the ballot. That is a suppression of the American people. And the Supreme Court is taking that case up in February. That should be a nine to zero to allow President Trump to appear on the ballot, because that’s the American people’s decision to make this November.”

Welker followed up.

“Just to be very clear, I don’t hear you committed to certifying the election results,” she said. “Will you only commit to certifying the results if former President Trump wins.”

“No, it means if they are Constitutional,” Stefanik replied. What we saw in 2020 was unconstitutional circumventing of the Constitution — not going through state legislatures when it comes to changing election law. And we’re seeing this in my home state of New York, Kristen. We are seeing Democrats try to steal the election and illegally gerrymander congressional districts that we fairly won and are fair line. So I see this at a very local level, as well as the unconstitutional overreach we saw at the national level in 2020.”

The Meet the Press moderator promptly fact-checked Stefanik’s claims.

“Mr. Trump, his allies, did take their case, their concerns about the election, to court more than 60 times,” Welker said. “They lost every time. Mr. Trump hired two independent firms to investigate that, they came up short. As well as the federal agency responsible for overseeing election security — CISA said that the 2020 election was the most secure in American history.”

Nonetheless, Stefanik replied, “I think it’s important because the American people understand that it was not a fair election. We had unconstitutional overreach. And that was why I objected to certain states when it came to my Constitutional responsibility as a member of Congress. I’m going to always stand up for the Constitution and make sure that we have strong election integrity. And the real threat to democracy is Joe Biden and Democrats who are attempting to remove President Trump from the ballot because Joe Biden knows he can’t win at the ballot box.”

Watch above, via NBC.