Statement from Rita Hart
“After many conversations with people I trust about the future of this contest, I have made the decision to withdraw my contest before the House Committee on Administration. Since Election Day, and throughout this entire process, my mission has been about ensuring the voices of Iowans who followed the law are not silenced. I am saddened that some Iowans’ votes will not count through no fault of their own,” she said.
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“Despite our best efforts to have every vote counted, the reality is that the toxic campaign of political disinformation to attack this constitutional review of the closest congressional contest in 100 years has effectively silenced the voices of Iowans. It is a stain on our democracy that the truth has not prevailed and my hope for the future is a return to decency and civility.”
The interesting thing here is that Pelosi and gang seemed poised to try to take this seat too. But the pressure from everyone else seemed to push Hart to this decision. Sadly, she attempts to make herself and Iowa voters out to be the victims, when in fact she was doing everything in her power (including bypassing a legal challenge in Iowa) to ignore the certified results of her race. Rather than fight this legally within the Iowa process, she wanted Democrats in the House to basically hold a vote to overturn the election results.
At no time during this race was Hart ever ahead and contrary to her repeated attempts to suggest differently, no legal ballots were tossed out. Her issue (as it generally is with Democrats) was to demand that illegal ballots be counted as legal. More to the point, she went out of her way to simply identify enough illegal ballots to challenge to overturn the results. Of course if she is allowed to go find 10 votes, then would you have to allow Miller-Meeks to pick 10 illegally cast votes for her to be included as well? When does it all end? Well the answer is simple. When all "legal" ballots have been counted.
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