Attorney General Todd Blanche told CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday to "stop it" when she asked whether the Justice Department's Alaska Senate lawsuit is groundwork for overturning an election - insisting "We're not laying any 'groundwork' for the president to do that, so your premise, your question, is not true!" he said.
Dana Bash asked Attorney General Todd Blanche if DOJ's Alaska lawsuit is groundwork for President Trump to "overturn the election," with a January 6th callback for good measure.
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Blanche: "You got to stop it with that. You are not being a real person."
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Bash, on State of the Union, referred to a "doomsday scenario" that Blanche had described days earlier, and asked whether Trump was positioning himself to overturn a result he did not like. "Oh, stop it," Blanche answered. "You are not being a real person. Come on, man." Bash replied, "Why are you yelling at me?" and said she "would have said that 'before Jan. 6.'" Blanche called the question "crazy," and then "not a real question."
The suit at the center of it was filed on Thursday, Oct. 22, against the state of Alaska. It asks a federal court to bar Alaska from certifying its Senate result in certain circumstances while the Justice Department investigates whether voters were confused by a second "Dan Sullivan" on the ballot. Incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan faces former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. Daniel J. Sullivan, a former teacher with the same name, READ MORE AT SOURCE »
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