When Pressed About the Results of the 2020 Election, Bailey Says to “Get Over It” and That It “Doesn’t Matter Anymore.”
CHICAGO, IL – In an interview on Tuesday, Darren Bailey again refused to admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Rather than answer the questions directly, Bailey dismissed them, calling it “absolutely 100% irrelevant,” proving that his MAGA values are unchanged.
Bailey still can’t even admit basic facts. Not only has he consistently failed to affirm that the 2020 election was decided fairly, but he has spread election fraud conspiracy theories and turned on fellow Republicans who called on Trump to concede. By sowing the same doubt in our democracy as the president and his lackeys, he is showing voters that he is still too extreme for Illinois.
Will Darren Bailey finally admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, or will he keep stealing from the Trump playbook and undermine free and fair elections?
REPORTER: Bailey would not say whether he believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen to elect Democrat Joe Biden. This is the same sort of question that the nominee for the Fed chairmanship is being asked on Capitol Hill right now. Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election? I don’t know how hard that is to answer, but it’s become a bit of a litmus test these days. What’s your best answer to that question?
DARREN BAILEY: Well, my best answer to the question is that get over it. They’re using this to try to trip us up, because anytime we have an opportunity to begin to unify as a nation, to begin to unify as a state, they keep going back to this nonsense. It is absolutely 100% irrelevant. It doesn’t matter anymore.
REPORTER: It does matter if the election was stolen, though. I mean, if the election was stolen, that’s a four-alarm fire. So I think it matters, but it’s right. It does matter if the election was stolen…
BAILEY: Right, but somebody somewhere, and that’s what I hope to do, is a, you know, voter ID that cleaning, giving people confidence in the electoral process again. That is what must happen. And until we do that, until we do that, we’re, you know, you’re right. We’re just throwing out talking points.
REPORTER: I’m wasting your time now, but I just wish you had said, yes, he lost the election. That would have unified Illinois or a lot of people, if that’s what you want to do.
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