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Bash Refuses to Take Yes for an Answer on 2020 Election Legitimacy
Newsbusters ^ | 9/4/2022 | Kevin Tober

Posted on 09/05/2022 2:19:30 PM PDT by Signalman

The leftist media is never happy. If a Republican candidate or elected official claims the 2020 election was stolen, they throw a tantrum, if a Republican admits President Joe Biden was legitimately elected and he is the current President, they continue asking the question until the exact party approved phrase is uttered. This was the case on Sunday morning's State of the Union on CNN, where co-anchor Dana Bash asked Washington state Republican Senatorial nominee Tiffany Smiley three times whether Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Each time she said yes, but a simple yes apparently wasn't good enough for Bash.

"Let's just drill down on this question," Bash prefaced before asking "simple yes or no, do you believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square?"

miley responded "Yes, he's our President. Yes," before going on to point out how "in 2016 Hillary Clinton had concerns, Stacey Abrams had concerns" about their elections. "This is an issue on both sides of the aisle. This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue," Smiley added.

Not happy with the way Smiley answered the question, Bash demanded she answer it again in a way that Bash's Democrat party approves of: "you said that President Biden is our President. Was he fairly elected, legitimately elected?"

"Yes, Joe Biden is our President," Smiley answered and went on to say she's focused on the voters in her state and not debating the 2020 election.

Bash angrily snapped back that "you didn't say that he was legitimately elected. I just want to give you one more chance to say that or if you are comfortable with your answer, we'll move on."

Smiley once again repeated the same answer that she Bash gave twice: "Yes, I think I made it clear. He is our President and, again, I am focused on the voters of Washington state."

Bash never said what the correct answer to her question was, but apparently saying yes, Biden is our President, isn't the Democrat Party approved answer despite what you might have believed.


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KEYWORDS: 2020election; bash; newsbusters
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1 posted on 09/05/2022 2:19:30 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Dana Bash is not in her element unless she’s bashing some one ...


2 posted on 09/05/2022 2:23:40 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Signalman

Why do Republicans bother going on these liberal stations?

It’s always nothing but ambush questions.


3 posted on 09/05/2022 2:26:29 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Signalman
"simple yes or no, do you believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square?"

Russian Collusion, and not another word.
4 posted on 09/05/2022 2:28:09 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Signalman

I think Smiley gave the perfect answer. “Yes, he’s our President” while NOT answering, “Was he fairly elected, legitimately elected?” It’s obvious what Smiley really thinks. Which drives Bash crazy.

Personally, I would have answered, “Hell no, the election was stolen.” But, I’m not running for office.


5 posted on 09/05/2022 2:28:29 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

“Say the line, Bart!”


6 posted on 09/05/2022 2:28:55 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Signalman

Biden got into the White House through illegality: vote buying, judicial overreach, election fraud and alien invasion.

The 2020 election fraud in itself was not decisive - I don’t think it swung more than three states.


7 posted on 09/05/2022 2:30:57 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Signalman

Biden is the red herring. What they want to hear is how Trump is a FASCIST RACIST SONOVAB*TCH!!!


8 posted on 09/05/2022 2:33:28 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Signalman

” if a Republican admits President Joe Biden was legitimately elected “

A biased framing if there ever was one.


9 posted on 09/05/2022 2:35:04 PM PDT by es345st
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To: Signalman

Smiley has no guts.

Her answer should have been “Yes, and Medina Spirit won the Kentucky Derby.”


10 posted on 09/05/2022 2:37:45 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: Signalman
There is a simple answer to this question that will still infuriate the liberals and might make it tolerable to conservatives:

"Let's just drill down on this question... simple yes or no, do you believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square?"

The American people don't vote for the President, the Electoral College does. I believe that the Electoral College fairly cast their votes and Congress fairly counted the ballots.

Joe Biden was fairly elected to be President of the United States by the Electoral College.

-PJ
11 posted on 09/05/2022 2:40:32 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: eyeamok

I just one of these candidates would ask did you see 2000 mules? Why not?


12 posted on 09/05/2022 2:45:18 PM PDT by genghis (Cathinkngact only reason go after puthan 5nu0 inbbiedComlpln)
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To: Political Junkie Too

The Electoral College acted upon tainted vote totals.

Biden has the title. People have been calling him “Mr. President” for a couple years. So, I guess you can say “He’s president”.

But the election was not legitimate.


13 posted on 09/05/2022 2:45:34 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: Signalman

Not happy with the way Smiley answered the question, Bash demanded she answer it again in a way that Bash’s Democrat party approves of: “you said that President Biden is our President. Was he fairly elected, legitimately elected?”

The repeated “confessional question” is another tactic used by the Left. The same question will be repeated over and over by the media, even after the candidate has answered.


14 posted on 09/05/2022 2:46:15 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: Signalman

The accepted numbers would indicate, that yes, Biden was elected, but the devil is in the details.

For Biden to have won the election, there had to be 155 million voters turned out, at least, and patterns of participation in elections do not support this number. A more likely number would be about 140 million to 145 million, based on participation in past elections, and the overall population of the US, as determined by the last census. So perhaps as many as 10 to 15 million votes were some kind of “ghost voters”, but no systematic analysis of the vote has ever been recognized by any legal authority in any state, to the point that would throw the vote tally into question. There are pending law suits, but nothing has ever been determined in a court of law or recognized by ANY state legislature.


15 posted on 09/05/2022 2:47:13 PM PDT by alloysteel (A born skeptic is now living in a target-rich environment. SO many beliefs to challenge...)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I know that. I just crafted a statement for liberal consumption.

-PJ

16 posted on 09/05/2022 2:48:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Flick Lives

The descendants of the Inquisitors have always used coercion and intimidation to try to force adherence to the Party Line.


17 posted on 09/05/2022 2:52:47 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Signalman

Washington state senate candidate, this fool is just trying to give ammo to the seal deniers


18 posted on 09/05/2022 2:53:06 PM PDT by daku
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To: Signalman

You    Must    Repeat    The    Narrative    EXACTLY!!


19 posted on 09/05/2022 3:09:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: alloysteel

The Obama 2008 Vote Fraud tool show it to you every time.


20 posted on 09/05/2022 3:10:04 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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