The act, which President Joe Biden signed into law as part of a $1.7 trillion federal spending bill in 2022, updated the Electoral Count Act to revise the process of casting and counting electoral votes in presidential elections. Former President Donald Trump, who is running for president again, has claimed repeatedly that he did not legitimately lose the 2020 presidential election, with CNN’s Dana Bash asking Donalds if Congress should follow this law.

“Look, I think when you’re talking about the election this November, the thing that people want is that local jurisdictions follow the law passed by the states,” Donalds said on CNN’s State of the Union. “As long as everybody does that, there‘s not going to be any problem certifying this election this November. But what really matters about this election are the issues facing the American people, not the Electoral College Count Act, because what we need is a president who‘s going to secure our border, actually make our foreign policies be strong again and make sense. That’s what matters.”

Bash then pressed Donalds on whether he would follow the law in certifying the election, prompting him to state he had been “very clear” about not opposing the results as long as states and jurisdictions followed election procedures.

The CNN anchor contended Donalds was giving “a giant loophole” as a response, with the Florida congressman stating that Pennsylvania and Arizona did not follow election procedures passed by their state legislatures. Donalds specifically cited how Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court said the state would count ballots three days after polls closed in 2020, which he said was “a violation of state law” and was just “one example” of states not following their respective election procedures.

Besides election integrity and the certification of the 2024 election results, Donalds was also asked what Trump would do to support black voters in the United States. The Florida congressman pointed to Trump’s first term as president for what he would do in a potential second term, including lowering tax rates and cutting policies to allow businesses to flourish and allow voters to keep more of their money.

“What that means in particular for black families is that you have an ability to earn more money, keep more money, wages actually growing when you adjust them for inflation,” Donalds said. “And in the big stat, and this happened during the first Trump administration, nobody likes to talk about it … wages adjusted for inflation were massively up under Donald Trump, for black men, for black families, but for all Americans.”

Ahead of the election, some political strategists have warned that Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s opponent in the 2024 election, is struggling to connect with minority voters, specifically black and Latino men. Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray suggested to the Washington Examiner that these voters are “more attracted to Trump’s ‘get tough’ persona this year than they were in 2020 or 2016.”

Recent polling data from The New York Times and Siena College indicated that Harris’s 78% support from black voters is higher than Biden’s 74% before he dropped his reelection bid, though it is still lower than the 90% of this voting bloc that Biden won in 2020. Trump, meanwhile, only showed 15% support from this voting bloc, which is significantly higher than the 9% he won in 2020.