“We will see if this is a legal and valid election,” Stefanik, a member of House GOP leadership and a Donald Trump ally, said in an interview with “Meet the Press.”

“We will see if this is a legal and valid election,” Stefanik, a member of House GOP leadership and a Donald Trump ally, said in an interview with “Meet the Press.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Sunday wouldn’t commit to certifying the 2024 election results during an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

While interviewing Stefanik, who serves in House Republican leadership, host Kristen Welker asked, “Would you vote to certify, and will you vote to certify, the results of the 2024 election no matter what they show?”

Stefanik, who has boosted former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, said that she did not vote to certify the 2020 results in the state of Pennsylvania and several other states because there were “unconstitutional acts circumventing the state legislature and unilaterally changing election law.”

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    151·
    1 year ago

    However, good journalism should be impartial. It should not criticize or provide opinion

    Hard disagree. A good journalist is partial to objectivity and speaks truth to power.

    When Trump is spreading baseless conspiracy theories, most of which literally endanger the lives of his intended target, you don’t just fucking let him do it without any pushback and let people without any background in relevant fields try to figure out whether he’s lying.

    That’s journalistic malpractice and also how the world got to the point where one of the two main parties is a literal fascist movement rather than a legitimate political party.

    it should report facts (including fact checking when a person says bullshit

    You can only fact check so much in real time, especially when you’re talking to someone who swings wildly between rambling nonsense and turning dog whistles into fog horns and you’re apparently not allowed to criticize or have opinions 🙄

    to give opinion is arguably bad journalism, or better to say, not journalism.

    In the same way that Donald Trump Jr arguably has a chin. You could make that argument, but you’d be wrong.