(ProsperNews.net) – During his speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland implied the GOP might try to “kill” vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance because that’s what they tried to do to former Vice President Mike Pence.
Raskin made the remarks when he spoke on the first night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday, Aug. 19, in Chicago. The comment referenced a handful of people who expressed hostility toward Pence during the events of Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., including bringing a mock guillotine prop in front of the Capitol. Some of those disgruntled protesters and rioters were dissatisfied with the fact that Pence refused to reject the certification by Congress of the Electoral College votes finalizing President Joe Biden’s victory.
Raskin told the audience of Democratic delegates that “someone should have told” Trump that his job as president was to make sure “laws are faithfully executed,” and not that his “vice president is executed.” He then noted that Pence is one of “two dozen officials” from the former Trump administration who denounced the former president, calling it a “historical record.” Raskin noted that Pence was the first vice president to not “support the president he served with” in a reelection campaign in over two hundred years.
The Democratic congressman then addressed Trump’s running mate directly, asking Vance if he understood why “there was a sudden job opening” to run alongside the former president on the Republican ticket. Raskin said the GOP “tried to kill” Vance’s predecessor because he wouldn’t follow the former president’s “plan to destroy and nullify votes, proceeding to name the states that were contested in the 2020 election by Trump: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona.
Raskin then asked the audience in general if they were willing to go back to “election suppression and violent insurrection,” referencing once again the events of Jan. 6, which Democrats have spent the last three years portraying as an attempt to overthrow the federal government.
As soon as Trump took office in 2017, Raskin was already calling for impeachment. He also voted against the certification of the 2016 election results, the irony of which isn’t lost on his critics since Raskin later led the effort to impeach the former president for questioning the results of the 2020 election.
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