Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democrats “hypocrites” for opening an investigation into the results of Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District election.
Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won the race by just six votes.
“In an ironic show of Democratic hypocrisy, her opponent, Rita Hart – with the help of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. – is objecting to the election results,” Gingrich wrote in an op-ed published by Fox News on Monday.
He added, “Hart realized her challenge was more likely to be favorably entertained by Pelosi than by any court, so she bypassed Iowa’s court system and took her objection directly to the U.S. Congress.”
Gingrich argued Pelosi and House Democrats should “leave this to Iowa’s courts and election officials.” He noted every Democrat on the House Committee on Administration voted to bring the case to Congress. The move had no Republican support.
“They are not helping Hart to uphold Iowa’s state election laws or the U.S. Constitution. They are upholding party selfishness and their agenda,” he wrote.
Turning his attention to former President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election, Gingrich claimed Democrats “threw a fit.”
Gingrich asked, “If the Democrats truly believed that Trump’s election questions were dangerous and undermined election integrity, then why would the Democrats risk American faith in our election system further by investigating Iowa?”
He continued, “It’s because they’re hypocrites.”
The former House speaker called it “a classic expression of the Democrats’ elitism and double standards.”
While taking a swipe at Pelosi, Gingrich stressed, “Pelosi’s majority in the House will not last through 2022, so challenging Iowa’s election results would help her add another cog to the Democratic Machine.”
If Pelosi succeeds, Gingrich went on, “Hart will be indebted to Pelosi and will be a guaranteed vote for the Democratic Machine.”
According to Gingrich, “Pelosi operates with the assumption that Americans are too stupid, weak and codependent to stand for themselves, so they need the Democratic Machine telling them what to do.”
Two Democratic House members have been called to President Joe Biden’s cabinet, leaving the Democrats’ House majority at two seats, 220-218.
Gingrich noted there are four House Democrats who oppose overturning the election results.
“Pelosi will likely be in a mad dash to corral and punish these, and any, Democrats who dare oppose the machine,” Gingrich wrote.
He predicted, “This will hurt the Democrats in the 2022 elections when Americans decide they’re done being overruled by their supposed representatives.”
