Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) defended Pennsylvania election officials ignoring a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling by counting votes that the court said were invalid.

Fetterman made the remarks unchallenged during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper.

“Your colleague Senator Bob Casey, who was up for reelection, there’s a commonwealth-mandated recount going on right now because it was so close,” Tapper said. “Democratic officials in at least one key county, Bucks County, voted to count about 115 provisional ballots that are missing a signature, despite the Pennsylvania Supreme Court previously ruling that those are invalid.”

A Democratic Bucks County official justified her actions by saying: “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country and people violate laws any time they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention to it.”

Tapper noted that even The Washington Post Editorial Board said that the move by Democrats in the state was “corrosive to democracy” and that “county officials do not get to decide whether a legal requirement is material and must be followed. Courts do and they have spoken clearly.”

When asked about Democrats defying court orders and counting invalid ballots, Fetterman suggested that it was not a big deal.

“I think you just pointed out that it refers to about 115 ballots, and that’s not going to have an impact on this race at this point,” he said, before immediately contradicting himself by saying: “Where we are now, it’s very, very close.”

“And I guarantee you, if Dave McCormick were in the opposite situation, where he was down 15,000 to 17,000 votes, he would absolutely want to have every last vote counted as well too,” he continued.

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ELECTION DENIERS: Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) defends local Democrat officials counting invalid provisional ballots in defiance of multiple court orders pic.twitter.com/udhkZjfG4Q

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