Posted on 12/15/2020 1:20:56 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany suggested President Donald Trump will not concede any time soon, saying he is “still involved in ongoing lawsuits” challenging the election.
Monday’s Electoral College vote is “one step in the constitutional process leading up to the Jan. 20th date,” or Inauguration Day, McEnany said at the White House on Tuesday. “He is still pursuing ongoing litigation for this election,” she said.
Electors in all 50 states cast their votes, with former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) receiving 306 votes to Trump’s 232. However, the Republican parties in several key states such as Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia said their electors cast votes for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence; they said those votes were cast to keep legal challenges open for the president.
Georgia GOP Chair David Shafer wrote that the move was due to a lawsuit in Georgia filed by Trump’s team. “Had we not met today and cast our votes, the president’s pending election contest would have been effectively mooted. Our action today preserves his rights under Georgia law,” he said in a statement. A similar statement was issued by the Pennsylvania GOP on Monday.
McEnany on Tuesday also dismissed a reporter’s question asking whether Trump is trying to de-legitimize millions of votes.
“I think pursuing legitimate litigation through the judicial system is in no way assaulting democracy” and is using “institutions in the manner they are to be used to pursue legitimate claims with sworn affidavits and additional evidence,” she said. The press secretary noted the real “assault on Democracy” is how Trump faced yearslong pressure and accusations from media outlets and Democratic politicians claiming that he colluded with Russia, which ultimately resulted in then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s report saying he found no evidence of collusion in the 2016 election.
Her remarks came as Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) again said he would try to challenge the Electoral College votes for several key states during the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6 when the votes are read. It’s unclear, however, if such a bid would gain traction among Republicans in Congress.
“Apparently, some folks have not done their history. By way of example, the Democrats in the House tried it in 2017 when they tried to strike Alabama’s votes for Donald Trump,” Brooks told Fox Business on Monday evening. “Georgia, the same way, the House Democrats tried to strike it. Barbara Boxer tried to strike Ohio for George Bush back in 2005, so this is not unusual. The law is very clear, the House of Representatives in combination with the United States Senate has the lawful authority to accept or reject Electoral College vote submissions from states that have such flawed election systems that they’re not worthy of our trust.”
Trump is still the President and he has a lot of power and we know he will use it wisely and legally.
I see a lot of arrests in the near future. and they will all be valid arrests. Those arrested will have their day in court. There won’t be any legitimate reason to criticize the arrests.
I sure hope so!!
sedulous
Trump will never concede.
“McEnany on Tuesday also dismissed a reporter’s question asking whether Trump is trying to de-legitimize millions of votes.”
Why can’t one reporter ask about the 80 million Americans “disenfranchised” and “delegitimized” by the blatant steal?
Simple. You don’t side with “deplorables”.
It Republican Senators do not rally, I expect that those who do not object will all be gone within six years.
It Republican Senators do not rally, I expect that those who do not object will all be gone within six years.
Voters throughout history have elected politicians to establish and maintain the legal system of our country. To suggest that any citizen should not be able to use that legal system de-legitimizes all of those voters, past and present.
I recall somebody once wrote about how to “redress grievances.” Does that still hold?
Probably not. Neither will he oppose the constitutionally-defined transition of power, whenever it happens.
Some of you really think Pence is going to count the elector votes and count alternate ones for Trump. How delusional are you? You sound like you morons.
I am very disappointed and disgusted with 50% of this so-called country, but I know when it's over and time to move on. Trump is beginning to look like a loon.
Typical lying scumedia can’t tell the difference between a vote and a ballot. A fraudulent ballot does not contain legitimate votes. Therefore you cannot de-legitimize what is not legitimate.
Trump will obey the law and uphold the Constitution. Nowhere in that is a concession required.
I wish that were true.
We will hear the usual cry “lesser of two evils!” to validate any Republican no matter how low they go.
Love Kayleigh — an incredibly reliable voice.
“We will hear the usual cry “lesser of two evils!” to validate any Republican no matter how low they go.”
True. In my case it will fall on deaf ears in the case of my Senators, Rubio and Scott, if no Republican Senator objects to the Electoral college vote.
“There won’t be any legitimate reason to criticize the arrests.”
Agreed, you know it, I know it, most informed patriots know it. But the loons that listen to the MSM will think the precise opposite.
“Why can’t one reporter ask about the 80 million Americans “disenfranchised” and “delegitimized” by the blatant steal?”
Because those 80 million are deplorables, not worthy of respect or any say in the government at all.
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