Trump has twice in the past week called on the chairman of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to make an extraordinary request to help reverse the damage done to the state.
The calls, confirmed by House Speaker Brian Cutler’s office fee, make Pennsylvania the third state where Trump has directly tried to reverse the outcome. He had earlier reached out to Republicans in Michigan and on Saturday he pushed Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to try to change the state’s electorate.
The Pennsylvania Republican House leader’s contact with the president came after his campaign and his allies lost several legal challenges in the state decisively in both state and federal courts. Trump has continued to put pressure on his baseless claims of widespread voting irregularities in public and private.
“The president said, ‘I’m hearing you about all these issues in Philadelphia, and these issues are with your law.’ “‘What can we do to improve it?’ ”
Cutler told the president that the legislature has no power to overthrow the slate of the state’s elected voters.
But last weekend, the Speaker of the House was among about 60 Republican state legislators who sent letters to congressional representatives in Pennsylvania urging them to raise objections to the state’s electoral slate on Jan. 6 as Congress prepares to accept formal official results.
Although less likely to gain traction from such a move, at least one Pennsylvania Republican, Rep. Scott Perry said in an interview Monday that he would comply with the request and dispute state voters.
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