NBC’s Chuck Todd to GOP Senator on Electoral College Challenge: ‘You’re the Arsonist Here’

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Chuck ToddCharles (Chuck) David ToddSenators, Experts Trust Russia Behind Cyber ​​Attack Despite Trump Skepticism Overall-Nominee Surgeon Says More Contagious Viral Strain In UK Doesn’t Look Killer Omar Blames Trump Of ‘Dangerous Criminal Neglect’ In Response To COVID-19 MORE NBC’s “Meet the Press” sharply criticized Sen. Ron JohnsonRonald (Ron) Harold Johnson Senate Democrats scold GOP colleagues who say they will oppose the Electoral College results. Sunday Show Preview: Senate Candidates Brace for Georgia Runoffs; government continues to roll out coronavirus vaccine 11 Senate Republicans say they will be MORE against electoral college results on Wednesday during a Sunday interview about the Wisconsin Republican’s decision to join other GOP senators to challenge presidential elections in several states and say, “You’re the arsonist here.”

“You and your colleagues have created this controversy,” Todd told Johnson a day after 11 Republican senators announced in a letter that they would contest the results, prompting a debate and vote in the House and Senate on Wednesday.

The senators took action after a series of courts dismissed the challenges of the Trump campaign for the results. According to the campaign, there was massive fraud against voters President TrumpDonald Trump – Court of Appeals Dismiss Gohmert’s Election Case Against Pence Kentucky Governor Calls Vandalism In McConnell’s House ‘Unacceptable’ Pence Welcomes’ Efforts by Lawmakers to ‘Object’ to Electoral College Results MORE‘s defeat for the president-elect Joe BidenJoe Biden – Court of Appeals Dismiss Gohmert’s Election Case Against Pence Romney: Plan to Challenge Election ‘Blatant Trick’ That ‘Land Dangerously Threatens Pence’ ‘Welcomes’ Legislators’ Efforts to’ Object ‘to Results of Election electoral college MOREbut it has provided no evidence to support those claims, court after court has determined.

“We are now trapped in a destructive vicious circle. … You claimed that there was widespread fraud. You have not provided specific evidence of that widespread fraud. But you are demanding an investigation on the grounds that there are allegations. of widespread fraud, ” Todd told Johnson, who is due for reelection in 2022 in a state where Biden narrowly defeated Trump.

Johnson is the only GOP senator to announce a challenge to the election results that represents a Biden-won state.

“So essentially you’re the arsonist here,” Todd said, adding that Johnson “didn’t have the guts to tell the truth that these elections were fair.”

Johnson objected to Todd’s claim, saying that “the fire” started when “the mainstream media dropped all semblance of impartiality and actually took sides in this election.”

“I didn’t start this,” added Johnson, accusing the media of “ignoring our investigation into Hunter Biden.”

In Saturday’s statement, the 11 GOP senators said Congress “should immediately appoint an election committee, with full investigative and information authority, to conduct a 10-day emergency review of election results in the disputed states.”

“Upon completion, individual states would review the findings of the Commission and, if necessary, convene a special legislative session to confirm a change in their vote,” the senators said.

Johnson, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee due to re-rule in 2022, has held several hearings over voter fraud and other alleged election irregularities. Due to deadlines, he will not be chair of the panel in the new Congress.

“ You spent … a lot of your time carrying a lot of this crazy conspiratorial water for President Trump, ” Todd said. ‘I’m just trying to understand here. What are you doing it for? … are you just trying to gain favor with the president’s voters? … Is this just a cynical political trick? ‘

Johnson replied that he was “trying to be transparent” and cited cases of “people voting twice” in Nevada as evidence of fraud.

“Just because someone says it’s not true,” Todd interrupted again. “Stop … You must not make these statements that none of them have proved true.”

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