At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial nominations, Blumenthal reads back the nominee's January 6th post about the 2020 election results: "a certified lie is still a lie." Asked who won, and then who won the popular vote, the nominee only cites the Electoral College. Blumenthal calls it a "canned, ridiculous answer" the committee has heard before and asks whether the nominee was instructed to give it.
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- Sen. Richard Blumenthal
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- hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee, judicial nominations
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Who won the election? And again, Senator, under our constitution, and it's actually. You know, I know who was certified, and I know what you think of certification, because you tweeted on January 6th in a post saying in reference to the 2020 election results, a certified lie is still a lie. I'm asking you who won the 2020 election. Let me make it more specific. Who won the popular vote? Again, Senator, under our Constitution what matters is who the Electoral College votes as. But I'm not asking you for what the Constitution says. I'm asking you for your view factually. And frankly, we've received this kind of canned, ridiculous answer before, as you know, because you were instructed to give this answer, right?
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.