Utah Sen. Meet Romney and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sassi – a few lawmakers from his party who wanted to criticize Trump – issued statements late Thursday night, and took the president to task for efforts to reverse his losses in Michigan. .
“After failing to make a comprehensive case of widespread fraud or conspiracy before any court of law, the president has now resorted to pressure on state and local officials to deny the will of the people and reverse the election,” Romney said. Statement posted by Twitter. “It’s hard to imagine a worse, more democratic action by a sitting American president.”
Romy and Cess were reacting to Trump’s decision to invite Republican leaders from the Michigan Legislature to the White House on Friday because their goal is to delay or block election credentials in key states that went to Biden.
Sass said in his statement that he was telling his constituents to see if Trump’s legal team was arguing in court, not what they were saying in public.
“Based on what I’ve read in his filing, while Trump campaign lawyers are appearing before the courts under oath, they have really refused to make allegations of massive fraud – because there are legal consequences to calling judges liars,” Sass said. “President Trump lost Michigan by more than 100,000 votes, and the campaign and its allies have lost or withdrawn from all five Michigan lawsuits because of their inability to present any evidence.”
It is unlikely that Romney and Sassena’s statements are an indication that support for Trump is declining on Capitol Hill and his post-election campaign of lies and conspiracy theories.
Romney was the only Republican senator to vote to convict Trump during the impeachment trial earlier this year and repeatedly criticized the president. Cess sometimes criticizes the president, staying hot and cold with the president, but has furthered his criticism in recent months, including phone townhalls with voters before the November election.
Most Republican lawmakers have encouraged the president to take his unsatisfactory claims of voter fraud to court and have refused to accept Biden as president-elect. Biden 606-632, CNN. The votes from the projects will win the Electoral College College lead, the same period that Trump won in the 201st. In popular opinion, he will get more than a million votes than Trump.
Cess described the news conference as particularly dangerous.
“The Wild Press Conference has eroded people’s confidence,” he said. “So no, obviously Rudy and his allies shouldn’t force voters to ignore their certification obligations under the law. We’re a nation of laws, not tweets.”
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