CNN anchor Pamela Brown shut down Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-Okla.) election comparison on Thursday, saying the contrast he made between the 2016 and 2020 contests was a “false equivalence.”
Brown initially asked Mullin on Thursday if every state certifies their election results, would he “accept a peaceful transfer of power?”
“It’s hard to say what you’re going to do or what you’re not because my job is to make sure that irregularities are within the standard that the federal government puts out place, which is us,” Mullin responded during his appearance on CNN’s “The Lead.” “What is irregularities that we’re willing to accept? If it passes irregularities in a district or a state, then absolutely not. It was within those standards that we will.”
Brown then added that every state “certifies the election result so they have their own processes.”
“If the elections are certified underneath the standards that they put forth, every state has the right to set…every state sets their own state election laws,” the senator said in response. “But in federal government sets irregularities as to how far those can go. So is it going to be less than 1 percent or is that less than a half percent? Whatever those regularities are. we’ll take that case at a time.”