(The Guardian) Trump still trying to get Wisconsin Republicans to decertify 2020 election results
The 2020 presidential election was held 624 days ago, but a top Republican in Wisconsin said Donald Trump last week encouraged him to decertify the results of the polls in the state, which Biden won by a narrow margin.
Robin Vos, the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, told Milwaukee broadcaster WISN that the former president called him and urged him to use a recent state supreme court ruling that ballot drop boxes are illegal to overturn the election results. “The court case as you read it does not go back and say what happened in 2020 was illegal,” Vos told WISN. “It just says going forward it can’t happen.”
The speaker described the phone call as, “He makes his case, which I respect. He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin. I explained it’s not allowed under the constitution. He has a different opinion, and then he put out the tweet. So that’s it.”
Trump didn’t exactly tweet, since he’s banned from Twitter, but he did take to his Truth Social platform and attack Vos as a “RINO” or Republican In Name Only, who let Democrats “get away with murder.” The former president could go further. Vos is facing a primary challenge from another Republican, but Trump hasn’t announced an endorsement in the race - yet.
The 2020 presidential election was held 624 days ago, but a top Republican in Wisconsin said Donald Trump last week encouraged him to decertify the results of the polls in the state, which Biden won by a narrow margin.
Robin Vos, the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, told Milwaukee broadcaster WISN that the former president called him and urged him to use a recent state supreme court ruling that ballot drop boxes are illegal to overturn the election results. “The court case as you read it does not go back and say what happened in 2020 was illegal,” Vos told WISN. “It just says going forward it can’t happen.”
The speaker described the phone call as, “He makes his case, which I respect. He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin. I explained it’s not allowed under the constitution. He has a different opinion, and then he put out the tweet. So that’s it.”
Trump didn’t exactly tweet, since he’s banned from Twitter, but he did take to his Truth Social platform and attack Vos as a “RINO” or Republican In Name Only, who let Democrats “get away with murder.” The former president could go further. Vos is facing a primary challenge from another Republican, but Trump hasn’t announced an endorsement in the race - yet.
