Former President Donald Trump is continuing to pressure officials in states he lost to President Joe Biden to overturn the results of the 2020 election — nearly a year and a half after the election took place.
Robin Vos, the state speaker of the Assembly, stated that in an interview with a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Trump has repeatedly asked him in private conversations to decertify the electionYou can ask as recently as this month.
“It’s very consistent,” Vos said.
The Republican leader told the former president that he cannot change the election result, even though he would like to.
“He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin. I explained that it’s not allowed under the [state] Constitution,” Vos said. “He has a different opinion.”
Trump has done well in the past repeatedly deridedVos for refusing to take any actions that could lead to the decertifying of the Wisconsin presidential election. Last August, the Assembly speaker agreed to a state audit. The person Vos hired to manage this audit made many mistakes. missteps regarding open records lawsFinally, a report was produced that is riddled in false allegationsTheories that have been proven false.
In actuality, there is no action that Vos or the Republican-controlled state legislature can take to decertify the election result. However, that didn’t stop Trump from lambasting Vos following the release of his interview on Tuesday and falsely alleging that the state Supreme Court had ruled that the election was illegitimate.
“So what’s Speaker Robin Vos doing on the Great Wisconsin Supreme Court Ruling declaring hundreds of thousands of Drop Box votes to be illegal? This is not a time for him to hide, but a time to act!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.
The state Supreme Court did not rule that drop box votes were illegal — instead, the conservative majority found that the voting method could not be used in future elections, citing unfounded claims that such votes could be compromised in the future. (An Associated Press Investigating drop boxes was published this week no evidence whatsoever that there were any problems with votes cast in that manner in 2020.)
The majority ruling, which was authored conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley, is here improperly compared Wisconsin’s drop boxes to rigged election standardsIn countries such as North Korea and Syria
In her dissent to the ruling, liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley correctly predicted that Bradley’s wording would perpetuate false claims that fraud had taken place in Wisconsin’s elections two years ago.
“The majority/lead opinion’s sky-is-falling rhetoric not only defies the facts, but also is downright dangerous to our democracy,” Walsh Bradley wrote. “Absent evidence that supports its statements, the majority/lead opinion still lends its imprimatur to efforts to destabilize and delegitimize recent elections.”
