Hillary Clinton is being accused of being an "election denier" over her warning this week that "right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election."

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends Variety's 2022 Power of Women: Los Angeles event Presented by Lifetime at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on September 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends Variety's 2022 Power of Women: Los Angeles event Presented by Lifetime at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on September 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.© Chelsea Guglielmino/FilmMagic

In a video shared on her Twitter page Tuesday, the former U.S. secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate spoke about how the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue a ruling in a potentially monumental elections case that it will hear this term: Moore v. Harper.

 

My message for @indivisibleteam, and everyone else:

We can't save our democracy with action only on the big-time, big-name races.

We have to save democracy at the state level, too. Join us. https://t.co/3ohzw7jrRKpic.twitter.com/JJOmVAg2V7

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 25, 2022

In Moore, Republicans are asking the Court whether state courts actually have the legal authority to throw out electoral maps and order districts to be redrawn. At the center of the case is something called the "Independent State Legislature theory," which the Brennan Center for Justice said could give state legislatures "wide authority to gerrymander electoral maps" and pass voter suppression laws. It has also been used as "political cover" in attempts to overturn elections, according to the think tank.

 

"Just think, if that happens, the 2024 presidential election could be decided not by the popular vote, or even by the anachronistic Electoral College, but by state legislatures, many of them Republican controlled," Clinton said in reference to the potential Moore outcome.

Other Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, have also issued warnings about the potential consequences of Moore on U.S. elections. But some conservatives have seized on Clinton's comments to describe her as an "election denier."