President Joe Biden says 2020 election denial contributed to the assault on Paul Pelosi

Brett T. | 6:28 PM on October 29, 2022

Politico has just told us that Democrats including Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are lashing out at the GOP and House Leader Kevin McCarthy for sidestepping political violence by the Republicans for years following the assault on Paul Pelosi. Bloomberg reports that President Joe Biden has weighed in, saying the rhetoric about the 2020 election has contributed to that violence.

President Joe Biden blamed political rhetoric including denial of the 2020 election result for the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, saying “this talk produces the violence” https://t.co/wFuwPFBOVF

— Bloomberg (@business) October 29, 2022

Full disclosure: This editor does believe that Joe Biden received more votes than Donald Trump, who had the media against him and four years of “Russia Russia Russia” contributing to voter fatigue. That said, the Left certainly doesn’t want to have an honest conversation about that election, which CBS News’ Major Garrett called “the greatest success of American democracy in history.” Yeah, no. Not with bursting pipes and taped-over windows.

Justin Sink reports:

President Joe Biden blamed political rhetoric including denial of the 2020 election result for the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, saying “this talk produces the violence.”

“You can’t just apologize and say: the violence,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware. “It affects people’s mentality, it affects how people think — particularly people who are not maybe as stable as other people. So the talk has to stop. That’s the problem.”
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“But you can’t condemn the violence unless you condemn those people who continue to argue the election was not real, that it’s been stolen — all the malarkey that’s being put out there to undermine democracy,” Biden said Saturday.