GOP leaders are starting to come to grips with reality of Trump's loss
November 22, 2020 in Blogs
By Lauren Floyd
Just as one did in Georgia, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Saturday launched by President Donald Trump’s campaign to bar Pennsylvania state election officials from certifying the state’s election results, CBS News reported. U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann wrote in his order that Trump’s attorneys employed “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state.”
The words have apparently inspired some Republican legislators to come to terms with the truth of President-elect Joe Biden’s election win. “With today’s decision by Judge Matthew Brann, a longtime conservative Republican whom I know to be a fair and unbiased jurist, to dismiss the Trump campaign’s lawsuit, President Trump has exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania,” Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said in a statement Saturday.
Toomey continued in the statement:
“This ruling follows a series of procedural losses for President Trump’s campaign. On Friday, the state of Georgia certified the victory of Joe Biden after a hand recount of paper ballots confirmed the conclusion of the initial electronic count. Michigan lawmakers rejected the apparent attempt by President Trump to thwart the will of Michigan voters and select an illegitimate slate of electoral college electors. These developments, together with the outcomes in the rest of the nation, confirm that Joe Biden won the 2020 election and will become the 46th President of the United States.”I congratulate President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory. They are both dedicated public servants and I will be praying for them and for our country. Unsurprisingly, I have significant policy disagreements with the President-elect. However, as I have done throughout my career, I will seek to work across the aisle with him and his administration, especially on those areas where we may agree, such as continuing our efforts to combat COVID-19, breaking down barriers to expanding trade, supporting the men and women of our armed forces, and keeping guns out of the hands of violent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill. ”
Make no mistake about it, I am deeply disappointed that President Trump and Vice President Pence were not re-elected. I …read more
Source: ALTERNET
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