Trump expressed keen interest in joining Giuliani for the trip and instructed aides to plan a trip to Pennsylvania, multiple sources said. This will be his first trip outside the Washington area since the election tour, which was not listed on a public timetable released by the White House on Tuesday night, but is being handled internally as an undercover movement.
The incident is a recent attempt by Trump and his allies to undermine confidence in the 2020 election and attack the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election as president.
The Trump campaign and the Pennsylvania Senate Republican, Gettysburg event, announced plans for a meeting of the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee on Tuesday – presented as an attempt to expose “irregularities” in the 2020 election. The meeting was chaired by Pennsylvania State Senate G.O.P. Is being held by, which keeps it in the hotel – not in the state capital.
Asked by the president to comment on his plans to attend the event, White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere told CNN, “I’ll refer you to tomorrow’s public timetable. I don’t have any additional updates at this time.”
The Trump campaign is the first of three similar events scheduled in coordination with Republican state legislators in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan. There is no evidence that widespread voter fraud has taken place in any of these states, despite repeated claims by Trump and his allies.
It is unclear whether Trump will speak at the hearing, his campaign said, adding that “the testimony of witnesses who filed affidavits on 2020 election fraud is also included.”
The location of Trump’s visit is surprising. Gettysburg is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Civil War, in which the Union repulsed a federal invasion of the North. The war ended with a failed charge by the army under the command of Confederate General George Pickett.
Just two days after the General Services Administration approved the president’s transition, Trump’s visit signals once again that he has no intention of abandoning election allegations or accepting Biden’s race.
One source warned that plans for the trip could change as the White House handles the trip as an unplanned “record of the record” movement.
Jim Acosta and Caitlan Collins of CNN contributed to this report.
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