The morning of Nov. 24, Pennsylvania certified its election results, with President-elect Joe Biden winning the state. On Nov. 25, mainly maskless Republican Pennsylvania senators hosted a meeting to hear testimonies from people who claim they are aware of voter fraud in affidavits. They primarily discussed voter irregularities in the state. It was in the Wyndham Hotel, in Gettysburg, the town of the tide-turning, gruesome Civil War battle.
President Donald Trump was set to attend, but cancelled last minute as campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn tested positive for the coronavirus. Some advisers previously mentioned it would be beneath Trump to attend as a sitting president.
Epshteyn was seen physically close to Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, leader of Trump’s voter fraud legal battles, and Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to Trump’s campaign, at the Four Seasons Landscaping mishap press conference. Unlike Trump, Ellis Giuliani brought themselves to the hotel venue, despite possible infection of themselves and others (Giuliani’s son, Andrew, was also at the press conference and also tested positive for COVID-19, doubling Giuliani’s exposure, but he still showed up).
Ellis played what could be considered a large role: she held up her phone to her microphone as Trump rattled off more claims of voter fraud with no evidence on speaker. At one point Ellis’s phone started beeping with an incoming call interrupting Trump. Baseless claims of fraud and irregularities that have been denounced by state officials are beginning to break apart America’s democracy and are crying desperation. Trump’s focus on meetings such as these are taking executive and national attention away from the crippling record number of COVID-19 cases per day.
Later in the day on Nov. 25, Trump invited some of the Republican lawmakers to the White House. Perhaps the next we’ll see him, Trump will be attending a similar event in Michigan, as the state certified its election results on Nov. 23.
2 comments:
I think that it is interesting how hard Trump and his team are trying to make this election look rigged. Trump has tried time and time again, even long before the election began, to make it seem like the election results would not be reliable. These events where Trump is trying to get rid of ballots via legal means is immoral and a threat to our democracy. Luckily, the state courts proved that our republic is still stable and will count every vote. Thank you for sharing!
If I don't recall, Hillary Clinton also called for a recount during the 2016 election, and Trump tweeted numerous times about how ridiculous it was to do so. Seems to me a little bit like hypocrisy at this point... And it is also interesting to see how in 2016 if he happened to lose, he wouldn't concede. And now that all votes have been counted (and recounted too), he still won't? How interesting to see him put so much effort and care into trying to win an election he has already lost.
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