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Pennsylvania GOP rallies to Trump's defense
Politico
Republican state legislators are calling for an audit of the presidential election results to be completed before electors are seated.
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
11/10/2020 07:26 PM EST
PHILADELPHIA — Jake Corman has said for weeks that the rumor that Pennsylvania lawmakers would intervene in the presidential race by directly appointing presidential electors is not true.
Corman, the majority leader of GOP-run state Senate, wrote in an October op-ed with another legislator that the General Assembly “does not have and will not have a hand in choosing the state’s presidential electors.” On his Twitter account, his pinned tweet reads, “I have had ZERO contact with the Trump campaign or others about how PA chooses electors.”
But with President Donald Trump refusing to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden and top Republicans rallying around his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, pressure has begun mounting on Corman and other GOP state leaders to reverse course and somehow overturn the results of the race. With 98 percent of estimated votes reported, Biden leads in Pennsylvania by 0.7 percentage points — or 45,659 votes.
The pressure is coming from all corners of the party, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Graham, a top Trump ally, said “everything should be on the table” when asked if Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere should invalidate election results due to supposed “corruption.” DeSantis said state legislators should “exhaust every option to make sure we have a fair count.”
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Republican state legislators are calling for an audit of the presidential election results to be completed before electors are seated.
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
11/10/2020 07:26 PM EST
PHILADELPHIA — Jake Corman has said for weeks that the rumor that Pennsylvania lawmakers would intervene in the presidential race by directly appointing presidential electors is not true.
Corman, the majority leader of GOP-run state Senate, wrote in an October op-ed with another legislator that the General Assembly “does not have and will not have a hand in choosing the state’s presidential electors.” On his Twitter account, his pinned tweet reads, “I have had ZERO contact with the Trump campaign or others about how PA chooses electors.”
But with President Donald Trump refusing to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden and top Republicans rallying around his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, pressure has begun mounting on Corman and other GOP state leaders to reverse course and somehow overturn the results of the race. With 98 percent of estimated votes reported, Biden leads in Pennsylvania by 0.7 percentage points — or 45,659 votes.
The pressure is coming from all corners of the party, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Graham, a top Trump ally, said “everything should be on the table” when asked if Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere should invalidate election results due to supposed “corruption.” DeSantis said state legislators should “exhaust every option to make sure we have a fair count.”
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more on how the PA GOP is as insane as *rump at link
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