Elie Honig Smokes J.D. Vance’s ‘Ridiculous and Illegitimate’ Election Claim: ‘He Knows That’s Bogus’ 

CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig had some blunt words for Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who explained what he would have done as Donald Trump’s vice president on Jan. 6, 2021.

Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Vance said that if he had been vice president, he would have acquiesced to Trump’s insistence to refuse to certify the results of the 2020 election as the presiding officer in Congress.

“If I had been vice president, I would have told the states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and so many others that we needed to have multiple slates of electors,” Vance said. “And I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there. That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020.”

After airing those comments on The Source, host Kaitlan Collins noted that Vance has taken issue with the expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania that was enacted by the Republican legislature in 2019.

“This is a ridiculous and illegitimate way to contest an election,” he said. “He says, first of all, the thing about the Pennsylvania ruling, if you don’t like something the legislature does, you can lobby them.”

Honig also took issue with Vance’s complaints about the influence of social media on elections.

“The other thing he says is, ‘I thought it was unfair the way social media suppressed certain stories,'” Honig said, paraphrasing the senator. “Well, guess what? Every candidate for office in the history of American politics has wanted the media to put more of some stories out there and less of others. And you don’t contest that by refusing to certify an election. He knows that’s bogus, by the way. He’s a lawyer. He went to law school. He’s just playing the part here.”

Collins noted that Vance may be on Trump’s list of potential running mates.

“I was just told the other day, he’s still very much on the top of the list for a potential VP candidate,” she said. “What would you make of the fact that someone who does have a law degree who would have that?”

“Let’s hope he’s just play-acting,” Honig replied of the Yale Law graduate. “Let’s hope he’s just auditioning because if he really means that, he would undermine the oath he would take as a lawyer. It would undermine everything he was taught at a very good law school.”

In the weeks following the 2020 election, Trump falsely claimed the election was rigged against him. When then-Vice President Mike Pence refused to abide by Trump’s plan, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a deadly insurrection.

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