‘This is getting insane’: Republicans push back against Trump’s false election claims
Thursday night delivered a series of false claims about the presidential election, though many did not mention him by name.
Shortly after Trump at a news conference made baseless claims about massive voter fraud in Pennsylvania, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said in a statement Thursday that once the state’s final election count is “reached and certified, all parties involved must accept the outcome of the election regardless of whether they won or lost.”
The harshest pushback came from retiring Texas Rep. Will Hurd.
“A sitting president undermining our political process & questioning the legality of the voices of countless Americans without evidence is not only dangerous & wrong, it undermines the very foundation this nation was built upon,” he said in a tweet. “Every American should have his or her vote counted.”
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Trump told one falsehood after another about the presidential race. Here are the facts.
President Donald Trump, who had not spoken publicly since an early Wednesday morning address, delivered remarks Thursday evening about the state of the still-undecided presidential election that were largely false, including claims about “illegal ballots,” mail-in voting and ballot-counting observers.
He then repeated some of them in a series of tweets sent after 2 a.m. ET on Friday.
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Georgia voters urged to check status of the mail-in ballots
Voters in Georgia are being urged to check the status of their mail-in ballots as the race in the key battleground state tightens between President Trump and Joe Biden.
Joyce Lanterman, a 48-year-old voter from Atlanta, decided to check the status of her mail-in ballot on Wednesday, the day after Election Day, after she saw multiple social media posts urging voters to make sure their ballot was received and counted.
After she mailed in her ballot back in October, Lanterman checked and saw it was marked as received; However, when she checked again on Nov. 4, she saw it had been changed to challenged for an invalid signature.
The status of Lanterman’s ballot had been updated to “challenged” due to an invalid signature.Courtesy Joyce Lanterman
I thought I was done and [now] I have to open this whole can of worms back up again, the day after, like not even the day of, the day after the election, was so stressful, Lanterman said.
Georgia officials are working to notify voters that they can cure their ballots, but many have not, according to the secretary of states office; Lanterman did not receive a call.
In addition, some organizations such as Stacey Abrams Fair Fight are recruiting volunteers to call voters and walk them through the ballot curing process.
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