Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft couldn’t justify why Biden should be removed from state ballots during a contentious interview on CNN.

Jay Ashcroft flopped when faced with the most dreaded predicament amongst grandstanding blowhards: a follow-up question

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to justify his ludicrous threat to have President Joe Biden removed from the state’s electoral ballot spiraled into chaos over the most basic of questions: “How so?”

During a Monday interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez, the Republican was asked how he justified his threats to have Biden removed from the state’s ballot in retaliation for recent attempts to remove Trump from state ballots on grounds that his actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election constitute insurrection. The constitutionality of such a removal will soon be reviewed by the Supreme Court.

“What would then be your justification for removing Joe Biden from the ballot in Missouri. Has he engaged in your mind in some kind of insurrection?” Sanchez asked.

“There have been allegations that he’s engaged in insurrection,” Ashcroft replied. He was then met with the most dreaded predicament amongst grandstanding blowhards: a follow-up question.

“How so?” Sanchez asked, prompting Ashcroft to demand that Sanchez stop interrupting him. “You can’t say something like that and not back it up,” Sanchez countered.

“You interrupted me before I could back it up,” a flustered Ashcroft complained. “Are you scared of the truth?”

  • MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    The follow-up question was literally “What accusations are you making against Biden to justify removing him from the ballot?”

    Like dude, you can literally make up anything and your base would eat it up. You couldn’t even do that. What a moron, and he’ll still lose almost zero support from his base because they didn’t actually pay attention.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Like dude, you can literally make up anything and your base would eat it up.

      The reason doesn’t matter. This is purely a tit-for-tat because Trump fell off the ballot in Colorado, Maine, and… I guess now Nevada? His base will still eat it up. Nobody who regularly votes for him is going to see the back end of this interview, just the headline, because they all think CNN stands for “Communist News Network”.

  • Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Isn’t Missouri the show me State? Is this fucktard going to show any evidence of insurrection or just blather on about how other governors have made the claim of insurrection against Biden? My god Republicans are stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid to the fucking core.

  • Nougat@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Ashcroft: “Are you scared of the truth?”

    Sanchez: “Oh, I am not terrified of the truth at all, seems like you might be.”

    You need to watch those clips in the Xitter link. Sanchez is on fucking fire and does not let up.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        We certainly do, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves into thinking that would accomplish much with these fuckers. They’ll just start avoiding the journalists that refuse to stay neutral or lob them softballs.

        It’s not like their supporters are going to shame them for doing that, either. I’m shocked any Republican talks to any reporter that isn’t from Fox News anymore.

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Why would Rolling Stone link to Shitter rather than directly to the CNN interview?

    They are enabling their oppressor

    Edit: I tried to post the clip from CNN. After it hanging because it was stuck on the pop ups to allow it to track me even off their site and requests to push non stop ads to my cell phone in the middle of meetings and dinner I gave up.

    There has to be a way.