Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Warns That the Political Battle is Far from Over After 2024 Presidential Election Results Certification
Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the certification of the 2024 presidential election results on Monday, but Sen. Blumenthal asserts that the real battle is only just beginning. In a post on X, Blumenthal claimed that President-elect Donald Trump has tapped “malignly motivated” nominees who are not qualified. He stated that the fight against Trump’s plans for blanket pardons, unqualified nominees, and normalizing election denial has yet to begin.
President-elect Trump plans to pardon people connected to the January 6 episode, telling “Meet the Press” moderator Kristin Welker that the cases would be examined and there could be exceptions if a person was “radical, crazy.” In a recent post, Trump declared that freeing “January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned” would be among his “first acts” as president, potentially pardoning anyone who attacked police officers, which Blumenthal denounced as “disgraceful” and “endanger[ing] democracy.”
Blumenthal also expressed his opposition to Trump’s plans for his first day in office, asserting that it would be “not with Trump planning blanket pardons. Not with Trump planning dangerous, malignly motivated, qualified, Trump nominees. Not with Trump normalizing election denial. The fight is just beginning.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Blumenthal’s comments, saying, “Enough with the Trump Derangement Syndrome. The American people clearly support President Trump and his policies to secure the border, end inflation, and restore world peace; and President Trump will work with anyone on Capitol Hill who wants to solve these problems and deliver results.”