MD GOP Gov. Hogan Claims ‘Scheme’ to Overturn Election Results ‘Makes a Mockery of Our System’

Many elected officials around the country are releasing statements about whether they agree or disagree with the representatives who are planning to challenge the election results on Jan. 6.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has decided to weigh-in with a statement as well, voicing his expected disapproval, given his clashes with President Trump in the past and the fact that he allegedly wrote-in Ronald Reagan on his November ballot.

Hogan began the statement and said, “Throughout my lifetime, American democracy has been a beacon of light across the world. Freedom-loving people have marveled at America because the people—not the politicians—elect the president, and the politicians respect the result.”

“The scheme by members of Congress to reject the certification of the presidential election makes a mockery of our system and who we are as Americans,” Hogan then claimed in the statement.

Hogan believes, “President Trump and his team have had every opportunity to provide evidence supporting their claims, and they have failed to do so. Their allegations have been flatly rejected by Trump-appointed judges and a Trump-appointed Justice Department alike.”

“All 50 states have now certified the presidential election. Governors, judges, and Secretaries of State have all done their job, regardless of the political consequences,” Hogan insisted.

Hogan concluded, “Whether or not you like the result, the process worked as it always has. What’s not working is that far too many politicians in Washington seem to have forgotten the basic principle that they are beholden to the people, not the other way around.”

Those politicians involved in the “scheme” however, would want to point out that voting was much different this year than normal, with no-excuse mail-in ballots and early voting.

According to NBC, that led to turnout increasing in every state and in 98 percent of the nation’s counties.