Top GOP state lawmakers set to visit White House amid election fight

[IsItJustMe]

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Source: The Detroit News

The visits by Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, and House Speaker Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, will come as a legal fight plays out in the battleground state with President Donald Trump attempting to challenge the results of the Nov. 3 election.

Democrats and at least one Republican voiced frustration after news of the planned trip broke, citing concerns that it could be part of an effort to overturn Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden's victory in Michigan.

U.S. Rep. Paul Mitchell, a Dryden Republican, said he expects Trump is bringing Shirkey and Chatfield to the White House to pressure them to appoint pro-Trump electors to circumvent the popular vote as well as lean on the state's GOP canvassers not to certify the election. That's "destructive," Mitchell said.

"For them to do anything other than to respect the popular vote is a violation of their oath of office. They took an oath like I took an oath to the Constitution, but in their case to the state Constitution, and the laws of the state don't say you get to appoint anyone you want," said Mitchell, who's retiring from Congress at the end of the year.


Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/19/shirkey-chatfield-set-visit-white-house-amid-election-fight/3777657001/

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There are similar posts in breaking news, but I found this article more informative, giving the names of the people going to the White House.

If something like this is successful, we may as well get rid of the senate, house, supreme court, elections and just announce Trump as king.

This is how they do it in dictatorships.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. I guess if the fall for this, that will get it to the SC quickly...

[bullimiami]

2. This is not a "legal" fight and Trump doesn't respect any laws. Follow him at your own risk.

[Chainfire]

3. Sounds like a RICO case in the making.

[SheltieLover]

5. This!👆

[SheltieLover]

4. Wtaf?

Why would they attend?

[Fullduplexxx]

6. He's going to ask them to steal the election for him in some form

Threat ... pleading ... bribing ... all 3

[PSPS]

7. They must realize that actually doing this would enrage the state's entire population?

They may be doing this just to mollify trump. At the moment, no republican can keep their job if they don't do whatever trump says. If they don't jump, trump gets them primaried and they're out of a job. These people need the votes of trump's "base" to stay in office. They get more votes doing this than they would by not doing this. But, as the weeks go by after Biden's inauguration, trump's power will begin to fade despite all of his meaningless post-election plans for a trump-pac and all of that nonsense.

[MarcA]

8. The Peculiar Institution of the Electoral College must end

or someday it will lead to the breakup of the U.S. if not actual Civil War.

[JudyM]

9. Locking

Dupe. Explanatory note in response to your comment: since the news was already reported in LBN, follow up info should be posted in that thread. Thanks.