Trump: Wisconsin Assembly Speaker 'Wrong,' Decertification Possible
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Wisconsin Republican lawmakers to continue their pursuit of 2020 presidential election decertification.
Wisconsin GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday said there had been
widespread fraud in the 2020 election, but he didn't believe there was a constitutional avenue to decertifying the results.
"Speaker Robin Vos, of the Great State of Wisconsin, just said there was 'widespread fraud' in the 2020 Presidential Election, but that the State Legislature cannot do anything about it. Wrong!" Trump said in a
statement released by his Save America joint fundraising committee. "If you rob the diamonds from a jewelry store, if you get caught, you have to give the diamonds back, votes should be no different.
"There is already a very powerful resolution in the Wisconsin State Assembly that calls for the decertification of the 2020 Election and reclaiming of Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes. There is so much fraud, as Vos knows, that this should be done quickly and easily."
Vos signed a new contract last week with Michael Gableman, the former state Supreme Court justice he hired to investigate the 2020 election,
extending his review through the end of April.
The extension came after the original contract expired Dec. 31 and a week after Gableman delivered a report that called for the Wisconsin Legislature to take a serious look at decertifying President Joe Biden's victory in the swing state.
"The highly respected Special Counsel, Michael Gableman, has exposed so much already, including election bribery with Mark Zuckerberg's $8.8 million, horrific fraud stealing votes from the elderly in nursing homes, and rampant ballot harvesting and phantom votes," Trump said in his statement. "Far more votes than is needed for the Republican candidate, me, to win."
Trump again reminded people, via his statement, that the country, and perhaps the world, would be in a different place under his leadership.
"Our Country would not be in the mess it's in if Republicans had the courage to act," he said. "We would be energy independent, no inflation, the Ukraine desecration would not be happening, our economy would be strong, there would have been no surrender in Afghanistan, and so much else.
"Speaker Vos should do the right thing and correct the Crime of the Century—immediately! It is my opinion that other states will be doing this, Wisconsin should lead the way!"
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Wisconsin Republican lawmakers to continue their pursuit of 2020 presidential election decertification. Wisconsin GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday said there had been widespread fraud in the 2020 election, but he ...
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Wisconsin GOP leader rejects election decertification call
Wisconsin’s Republican speaker of the Assembly again rejected calls to decertify President Joe Biden’s win in the battleground state after
meeting privately Wednesday with advocates for making that move that attorneys across the political spectrum have said can’t be done.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who
called the meeting, emerged to say he believed there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election but the focus should not be on relitigating that but instead on electing Republicans as governor and attorney general this fall.
“We don’t have the ability to unilaterally overturn the election,” Vos said of 2020, repeating his long-held position. “It can’t happen.”
Vos said the oath he took as an elected official and the constitution “doesn’t allow me to decertify any of the elections, whether I want to or not. That’s not going to happen.”
Decertification advocates, including Republican candidate for governor and current state Rep. Timothy Ramthun, had hoped to convince Vos to change his stance. They didn’t succeed.
Vos kicked Ramthun out of the meeting before it even began.
“More obstruction,” Ramthun said as he exited the room. “This is what I have been dealing with now for 17 months.”
Ramthun and Vos have butted heads over the election and its aftermath.
Vos and other Republican leaders have refused to take up Ramthun’s resolutions seeking to decertify the election. And in January, Vos removed Ramthun’s only full-time staff member as punishment after Vos said he falsely accused Vos of signing a deal with attorneys for former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to authorize absentee ballot drop boxes.
Vos said the meeting was a chance for those who believe the 2020 election cannot be decertified to discuss it along with advocates for decertification. Nonpartisan attorneys who advise lawmakers were at the meeting. They have previously said it is illegal to decertify the election, as has the head of the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.
Another meeting attendee, Jefferson Davis, presented evidence of what he said was widespread fraud. Statewide, 24 people have been charged with voter fraud, a miniscule percentage of the nearly 3.3 million people who cast ballots that is on par with past elections.
Vos has come under pressure from former President Donald Trump and other Republicans, including Ramthun, who support his
false claims that the election was stolen and say Vos is not doing enough, including decertifying Biden’s win.
Vos, Senate Republican Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu and state GOP chairman Paul Farrow were scheduled to meet with county Republican chairs on Wednesday night to discuss election fraud and other issues.
Ramthun told reporters after he was kicked out of the meeting that it should have been open to the public. He also urged the filing of criminal charges against anyone who broke the law related to the 2020 election, including members of the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission.
Three county district attorneys have declined to file charges against commission members, citing a lack of evidence.
Ramthun has emerged as one of the most vocal election conspiracy theory advocates in Wisconsin, using it as the primary issue for his
run for governor. MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, also a purveyor of false claims that Trump won the 2020 election, endorsed Ramthun.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Republican speaker of the Assembly again rejected calls to decertify President Joe Biden's win in the battleground state after meeting privately Wednesday with advocates for making that move that attorneys across the political spectrum have said can't be done.
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