Pennsylvania GOP rallies to Trump's defense
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
11/10/2020 07:26 PM EST
... 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” ...
A small cadre of conservative Pennsylvania state legislators held a Harrisburg press conference Tuesday calling for an audit of the election to be completed before electors are seated ...
The state lawmakers on Tuesday offered no evidence of voter fraud. Only about 20 Republicans attended, a fraction of the nearly 140 members in the state legislature — and GOP legislative leaders were missing.
“It’s not going anywhere in the Senate,” said Christopher Nicholas, a longtime Pennsylvania-based GOP consultant, of the direct appointment of electors by the legislature. “I think those 19 folks had an itch to scratch. They just scratched it. I think that’s kind of the end of it” ...
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