As a Republican leader claims no one is questioning the election, Tucker Carlson and Mollie Hemingway cast doubt on the election

Tucker Carlson: “So many people are lying at such high volume about the 2020 election, it's hard to know exactly what happened”

Written by Media Matters Staff

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From the May 12, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So, so many people are lying at such high volume about the 2020 election, it's hard to know exactly what happened. Mollie Hemingway is a senior editor at The Federalist. She's fearless, and she's actually a journalist. She's one of the very few people who's taken the time to look into what happened in November of 2020 honestly. You can read what she found in her new book. It's called Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections. 

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MOLLIE HEMINGWAY (GUEST): We have learned that there was a coordinated effort to change the way we vote, you know, in the middle of the game, change the rules for voting in the middle of the game. And a lot of the way that that was done was actually through the COVID crisis. The response to the COVID crisis enabled people to justify making dramatic, revolutionary changes in the way we vote, and the way we vote is important.

Earlier today, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) declared that “I don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election.”

After first WH meeting with @POTUS, @GOPLeader McCarthy responds to @kwelkernbc “…I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. I think that is all over with. We’re sitting with the president today.” pic.twitter.com/XP3KwydE5b

— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) May 12, 2021

That remark came hours after the House Republican caucus removed Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her leadership position after she had criticized former President Donald Trump's ongoing lies about the presidential election.

A new poll finds large majorities of conservative media viewers believe false claims about the 2020 presidential election.

Republicans who trust Fox News (86%) and far-right news networks (96%), including One America News Network and Newsmax, overwhelmingly support the stolen election conspiracy theory. pic.twitter.com/yyUw6BC4Qn

— PRRI (@PRRIpoll) May 12, 2021