Trump invites Michigan Republican leaders to meet him at White House
Source: Washington Post
Complete headline: Trump invites Michigan Republican leaders to meet him at White House as he escalates attempts to overturn election results
President Trump has invited the leaders of Michigans Republican-controlled state legislature to meet him in Washington on Friday, according to a person familiar with those plans, as the president and his allies continue an extraordinary campaign to overturn the results of an election he lost.
Trumps campaign has suffered defeats in courtrooms across the country in its efforts to allege irregularities with the ballot-counting process, and has failed to muster any evidence of the widespread fraud that the president continues to claim tainted the 2020 election.
Trump lost Michigan by a wide margin: At present, he trails President-Elect Joe Biden in the state by 157,000 votes. Earlier this week, the states Republican Senate majority leader said an effort to have legislators throw out election results was not going to happen.
But the president now appears to be using the full weight of his office to challenge the election results, as he and his allies reach out personally to state and local officials in an intensifying effort to halt the certification of the vote in key battleground states.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/19/wayne-county-rescind-certifying-election/
It's blatant, in your face sedition.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Let them know.
C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)and if their lawyers aren't advising them "don't go" then they aren't looking out for their clients' interest very well.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)It wouldn't surprise me if the keep the names secret in an effort to avoid the public outrage they would be subjected to. If they don't release the names, every Republican in the legislature needs to be subjected to the full force of the public's outrage. It needs to be clear that going along with Trump's plans will make them pariahs.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)marble falls
(57,080 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Put it under siege. No one in - no one out.
patphil
(6,172 posts)I would hope these Republicans would be smart enough to decline the invitation; it would be the ethical thing to do. But ethics seems to be lost on the Republican Party these days.
I will withhold my opinion until I see what they actually do, and what the state board of canvassers does on Monday.