U.S. congressional candidate Rep. Claudia Tenney believes once 'all legal votes' are counted she will emerge victorious.
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Griff welcome back all eyes,
Griff welcome back all eyes.
Turning to the court battle over
New Yorks 22Nd congressional
district seat at GOP challenger,
Claudia Tenney now leads
democratic incumbent, congressman
Anthony Brindisi by a razor thin
margin. Just thirty votes here with
an update, New York congressional
candidate, Claudia Tenney,
Claudia Good Morning to you
boy, this one couldnt get any
closer.
Where do things stand?
Thank you so much and good
morning- and I just want to first
say I want to thank everyone
across our region and across the
country who have been so
supportive throughout this very
long journey. Election day was a
long time ago, and if anything
that my race highlights is the
dysfunction with our
election system and the fact
that we need to fix it. So right
now were technically up about
twenty seven votes, but there are literally
hundreds of votes that are going
to be looked at by the judge, so
all the undisputed votes. That
means the only votes left are
those that are going to be under
judicial review and,
unfortunately, the judge has
decided to adjourn this case
until January. Four, which means the
normal date for a swearing
in ceremony in Congress is
January three, so our district will
not have a representative.
We feel that once all the legal
votes are counted and the facts
are applied to the law, we will
emerge victorious and be
certified as the winner in this
district, but its been a
long journey for sure
Griff. So, Claudia sitting aside
your race for just a second,
this means that the 117Th
Congress will start without a
representative in the 22nd
District of New York.
How does this? How do they
prevent this from happening
again?
Well, first of all, one
thing ive highlighted in the
past is that the Democrats
in Congress, the majority under
Nancy Pelosi, their signature
legislation is Hr. 1,
that is a complete overhaul of
our election system.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo
actually implemented many of
those terrible policies in an
executive order that he
passed in August of this year.
Changing all the election rules,
throwing our board of elections
into a tailspin overburdened
Understaffed without the
resources that were promised
and thats. Why you have this
mess that has occurred in
my district and is very
reflective of whats going on
throughout the nation and what
the president has been going
through in states that, for
example, do know the have
something as simple as voter id,
where every vote
counts or where election day is
a day set thats the end of
voting. They are allowing people
to come in and bring in votes
after election day and get those
counted and making
those types of challenges
Griff Claudia. We will continue
to follow your race very closely.
I want to quickly if I can get
your thoughts on another
story, and that is your potential
future colleague representative
Elise Stefanik calls Governor
Cuomo an absolute disgrace for
prioritizing drug addicts
for coronavirus vaccine doses.
Do you agree with that?
Isnt that something
thats another governor Cuomo
issue, placing instead of the
people in nursing homes and
people that are vulnerable
around their communities, people
with underlying conditions
shouldnt? They be the first
people to get the Covid virus
im sympathetic to people who
suffer from addiction, its a
very serious issue, but right
now we dont have enough vaccine
s to go around for
everyone, and I think we
should prioritize people who are
elderly and sick and people who
are really especially a guy
like Governor Cuomo, who has
sent to many people to their
untimely death in his terrible
nursing home policy. So many
people in my own community have
died prematurely in nursing home
S, because covid positive
patients under his order, were
placed into these nursing homes
and infected entire communities,
and thousands of people have
died across New York, and you
know the governor im, not a fan,
so I dont agree with his policy
Griff. Well. We certainly got
that former
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-31.