taken on March 26, 2019 Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch
McConnell (R-KY) listens while US President Donald Trump speaks to
reporters before a meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill
in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski / AFP
Two Senate allies of Donald Trump on Thursday warned
that Republicans may reject the legitimacy of vote results if they
turn against the embattled president.
As a few Republicans distanced themselves from Trump’s
unsubstantiated allegations of fraud in Tuesday’s election,
Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz enthusiastically backed him in
back-to-back appearances on Fox News.
“I’ll tell you the president is angry and I’m angry and the
voters ought to be angry,” Cruz told the network’s host Sean
Hannity, whose evening show is a favorite of Trump.
Cruz alleged falsely that Pennsylvania’s Democratic attorney
general had ordered vote-counting in the state’s largest city of
Philadelphia “until Joe Biden wins.”
“We need to get in there now,” Cruz said of voting centers.
Pennsylvania officials say they will continue counting votes
from Tuesday’s election until they have accounted for all
ballots.
The state’s Republican-led legislature had refused to allow the
counting of votes before Election Day despite a deluge of mail-in
ballots due to safety concerns in the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The final ballots being counted are largely from Philadelphia
and are expected to favor Biden, who would capture the White House
with a victory in the state.
Asked by Hannity if the Pennsylvania legislature could refuse to
recognize the results and instead give the state’s electoral votes
to Trump, Graham replied, “I think everything should be on the
table.”
“Philadelphia elections are crooked as a snake. Why are they
shutting people out? Because they don’t want people to see what
they’re doing,” said Graham, who easily won reelection Tuesday in
South Carolina despite a major push by Democrats.
Trump’s campaign has pushed for its observers to have closer
access to vote counting.
The city had allowed in the observers but asked them to keep a
distance of at least 15 feet (4.5 meters) due to the risk of
Covid-19 transmission.
A court Thursday sided with the Trump campaign and permitted the
observers to approach closer but the Philadelphia Board of
Elections appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, saying that
the observers had sufficient access in line with the law.
AFP
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