TAPPER: “I have to ask you about something you said earlier this week. Let’s roll that soundbite.”

[Clip starts]
MALONEY: “Let’s not pretend for a minute that both sides have the same amount of accountability for the loss of confidence in our elections. One side has been out there for a couple of years now doing everything they can to pretend Joe Biden didn’t win fair and square.”
[Clip ends]

TAPPER: “The thing is, Democrats writ large have spent $53 million supporting far-right candidates, election deniers in the primaries, including the DCCC. By amplifying these election deniers, aren’t you holding responsibility, to a degree, for the undermining of democracy that you’re also warning about?”

MALONEY: “Oh, my God. Jake, let’s be really clear. What that question you just played was about was who’s questioning the outcome of elections. And that started with Donald Trump, and we all know it. Let’s be clear, that $53 million, look, it’s $400,000 at the DCCC in one race, one, where we ran a true general election ad two weeks early, calling John Gibbs an extremist who’s too conservative for Western Michigan — “

TAPPER: “Yeah, it’s a booster.”

MALONEY: “And Hillary Scholten, who is a great candidate — excuse me — beat him like a drum. So if you want to ask people who spent all that other money, that’s great. And let’s be clear. Not one dime was spent from the DCCC supporting any Republican. It was spent criticizing a Republican for being too extreme, and it is going to result in a pro-choice strong candidate named Hillary Scholten winning that race.”

TAPPER: “Come on. You guys were boosting John Gibbs, an election denier, a MAGA Republican, so that he would beat Congressman Peter Meijer, who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Capitol attacks. You thought Gibbs would be easier for your Democratic candidate to beat, so you boosted him. That’s — that’s the only reason he won that race.”