“On Sunday, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) appeared on ‘Fox News Sunday’ where host Chris Wallace pressed him on the question Republicans hate to answer: Was Biden legitimately elected? ‘If you look at a number of states, they didn’t follow their state-passed laws that govern the election for president,’ Scalise replied. ‘That is what the United States Constitution says. They don’t say the states determine what the rules are. They say the state legislatures determine the rules.’ Wallace pressed him on the point. Was the election stolen?”

“‘What I said is there are states that didn’t follow their legislatively set rules. That’s what the United States Constitution says,’ Scalise replied. ‘And I think there are a lot of people that want us to get back to what the Constitution says we should be doing. Not just with elections, but a lot of other things, too.’ Over and over, Wallace asked for a straight answer and, over and over, Scalise offered the same evasive one. Consider what Scalise is doing. He’s intentionally trying not to say that Biden won fairly because that position is anathema to the loudest part of his party’s base. And to avoid saying that, he’s seizing not upon unproven claims of fraud but a similarly inflated assertion that states made it too easy to vote. He doesn’t allege that this led to more fraud or anything along those lines, though others have; he’s simply claiming that because states made it easier to vote, that was the equivalent of an illegitimate Biden win or an election being stolen. Because legal voters cast votes in a manner that their states have authorized” – Philip Bump, Washington Post.