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Zorro

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Thu Nov 19, 2020, 05:54 PM Nov 2020

Trump invites Michigan Republican leaders to meet him at White House [View all]

Source: Washington Post

Complete headline: Trump invites Michigan Republican leaders to meet him at White House as he escalates attempts to overturn election results

President Trump has invited the leaders of Michigan’s Republican-controlled state legislature to meet him in Washington on Friday, according to a person familiar with those plans, as the president and his allies continue an extraordinary campaign to overturn the results of an election he lost.

Trump’s campaign has suffered defeats in courtrooms across the country in its efforts to allege irregularities with the ballot-counting process, and has failed to muster any evidence of the widespread fraud that the president continues to claim tainted the 2020 election.

Trump lost Michigan by a wide margin: At present, he trails President-Elect Joe Biden in the state by 157,000 votes. Earlier this week, the state’s Republican Senate majority leader said an effort to have legislators throw out election results was “not going to happen.”

But the president now appears to be using the full weight of his office to challenge the election results, as he and his allies reach out personally to state and local officials in an intensifying effort to halt the certification of the vote in key battleground states.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/19/wayne-county-rescind-certifying-election/



It's blatant, in your face sedition.
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