Wednesday’s House Administration Committee hearing on private donations helping to fund the administration of elections was contentious, even though everyone seemed to be on the same page.
“All of us can agree that no private funding should be funding our elections — it should be public funding,” said Rep. Terri A. Sewell, D-Ala.
But the hearing’s subtext — the thoroughly refuted, yet still repeated claims that the 2020 election was invalid — kept the panel’s Democrats and Republicans talking past one another.
