Trump's Ga. Lawyer Sends Demand Letter for Signature Match Recount

A lawyer for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in Georgia is asking for an audit of up to 45,000 signatures on ballots that allegedly have been illegally cast in the presidential race before the state’s recount is completed.

In the fifth letter sent to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger by President Donald Trump's campaign counselor Ray S. Smith, the lawyer urged an audit  “before it’s too late.”

“It is not possible for you to accurately certify the results in the president race… until and unless there is a thorough audit of the Signatures, which we have now requested four times in writing prior to this request," Smith wrote.

"You cannot in good faith conclude the ongoing statutory recount until you have institute a Signature matching audit," Smith argued. "The margin in Georgia at this time is 12,670 votes — and the potential illegal absentee ballots included in that number is between three and four times the margin of votes awarding the victory to Joe Biden.”

Smith asserted he estimated that "between 38,250 and 45,626 illegal votes may have been cast, counted, and included in your tabulations for the presidential race."

“It is inconceivable that you are unwilling to take any steps to audit the Signatures before completing the current recount and proceeding to certify the results of an election where so many illegal votes may be included in your tabulations," he wrote.

“We implore you to exercise your statutory authority and your duty to the electorate to audit the Signatures, before it is too late," he pleaded.

He asserted the recount requested by the Trump campaign would wrap up by its Wednesday deadline just shy of midnight.

 

California GOP Rep. Garcia Wins Reelection in Squeaker

Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., has won the race for California's 25th Congressional District, retaining the seat he won in a May special election.

Garcia beat Democrat Christy Smith, who conceded the race, according to her statement posted on Twitter.

"With final votes counted in this race, it's clear we will not be able to close the 339-vote gap," Smith said in a statement. "This is not the end result we fought for, but I am proud of the strong, grassroots campaign we ran."

"We exhausted every possible option, and did everything within our power to ensure that every voice in this election was heard. Nonetheless, we came up short," Smith said.

Garcia had claimed victory last week but Smith had said that assertion was premature because not all of the more than 338,000 votes cast had been counted.

In a statement Monday, Garcia said he looks forward to two more years representing the district, which includes most of northern Los Angeles County and part of eastern Ventura County.

"I remain committed to protecting the Constitution, fighting for the longevity of our nation and ensuring we invest in our public's safety and our collective national security," Garcia said, with a short-term goal of pushing for federal relief for people and small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Garcia, a former fighter pilot and unabashed supporter of President Donald Trump, recaptured a district that Democrats had only won two years ago. Garcia won the vacant swing district in a May special election following the resignation of Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., in 2019.

Hill stepped down in 2019 after acknowledging an affair with a campaign worker.

Garcia's victory marks another bright spot for Republicans in the heavily Democratic state. They lost a string of House seats in 2018 but with Garcia's victory, they have now reclaimed four in California.

Republican Young Kim defeated Democratic Rep. Gil Cisneros in a district anchored in the one-time GOP stronghold of Orange County, and Republican Michelle Steel claimed the 48th District in Orange County from Democratic Rep. Harley Rouda.

In the Central Valley, Republican former Rep. David Valadao retook his old job from Democratic Rep. TJ Cox, who unseated him two years ago.

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Pennsylvania GOP Introduces Resolution to Dispute Election

Republicans in the Pennsylvania General Assembly formally introduced a joint resolution Monday declaring the general elections results in dispute and reserving the power to designate presidential electors for the Electoral College.

The introduction was the latest step in a process begun last week by state Sen. Doug Mastriano to reclaim the authority granted in the U.S. Constitution to appoint the electors to the Electoral College.

The six-page resolution outlined the reasons for contesting the results, specifically accusing the officials in the executive branch of changing election law by allowing for absentee ballots that arrived after 8 p.m. on Election Day to be counted and the "partisan majority" on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court of allowing it.

It also said mail-in ballots were allowed to be corrected in heavily Democrat counties and were permitted to be counted without signature verification.

"A number of compromises of Pennsylvania's election laws took place during the 2020 General Election," the General Assembly said in a statement quoted by The Epoch Times. "The documented irregularities and improprieties associated with mail-in balloting, pre-canvassing, and canvassing have undermined our elector process and, as a result, we cannot accept certification of the results in statewide races."

Despite numerous lawsuits and challenges, Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar formally certified Pennsylvania's results last week declaring Joe Biden the winner of the state's election for president by more than 80,000 votes.

The resolution calls on Boockvar and Gov. Tom Wolf, both Democrats, to withdraw or vacate its certification of election results and declares "the General Assembly takes back and reserves the power to designate presidential electors for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the December 2020 meeting of the Electoral College."

It also called on the U.S. Congress to recognize and count only electors' votes as certified by the Pennsylvania House and Senate.

Republicans control both houses of the Pennsylvania legislature, known as the General Assembly.

GOP members outnumber Democrats in the Pennsylvania House 113-90 and 28-21 in the Senate, with one independent who caucuses with the Republicans.

Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution says, ''Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.''

 

Amistad Lawyer to Newsmax: FBI Collecting Data on Vote Fraud

The FBI is using voter fraud information collected by the Amistad Project, the project's director, Phillip Kline, said Monday on Newsmax TV.

Kline, who is former attorney general of Kansas, tweeted the news on Sunday.

Appearing on "Stinchfield," Kline said the group's investigations show "what we call the blood in the street. It's after the crime is committed. And what evidence is there to show that a crime has been committed."

The FBI is looking at evidence uncovered by Amistad Society investigators who have crunched data from the government, then reached out to actual voters to see if how they voted actually matches the government's data.

"And we've come up with tens of thousands of Republican ballots that were not counted," Kline told host Grant Stinchfield. "We've come up with hundreds of thousands of Republicans who say they never requested a ballot, but they voted absentee by somebody else. We've identified people outside of the state who voted within the state. And all of this occurred in the key swing states that we're speaking about."

Kline said all of the areas investigated "had hundreds of millions of dollars poured into their election offices by Mark Zuckerberg."

The Facebook CEO, Kline said, poured in $400 million into the election, matching the federal government expenditures, through his charities.

"They paid the election judges, they paid the people who boarded up the windows, they bought the machines and America was kicked out of the counting room, and a billionaire invited in, in all of the swing state urban core cities, and that is a violation the law."

Amistad's data show that all of these changes benefited Democratic strongholds as they were suppressing the vote in Republican strongholds, Kline said, "and then we had them sidestepping the law and accepting ballots they should not have accepted"

 

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Trump Expresses Doubt on Whether Supreme Court Will Hear Election Cases

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that it might be difficult to get his election fraud allegations heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, expressing doubt about his legal strategy as his hopes of overturning the Nov. 3 election dwindle.

"The problem is it's hard to get it to the Supreme Court," Trump said in a telephone interview with Fox News. "I’ve got the best Supreme Court advocates, lawyers that want to argue the case if it gets there."

Trump said he would still continue to fight the results of election, which was won by Democratic President-elect Joe Biden. "My mind will not change in six months," Trump told Fox News.

In his first full interview since the November election, the president slammed judges' decisions on his legal challenges to the 2020 election's results.

"We’re not allowed to put in our proof. They say you don’t have standing," Trump told "Sunday Morning Futures." "I would like to file one nice big beautiful lawsuit, talking about this and many other things, with tremendous proof. We have affidavits, we have hundreds and hundreds of affidavits.

"You mean as president of the United States, I don't have standing? What kind of a court system is this?" Trump told host Maria Bartiromo.

Trump refuses to concede the 2020 election. Meanwhile, his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, is announcing Cabinet members and plans for when he takes office in January. On Friday, Trump claimed Biden must prove that the votes he received in the election were not “illegally obtained” in order to enter the White House.

There have also been weeks of legal challenges from the Trump campaign in battleground states like Pennsylvania alleging voter fraud.

"We're trying to put the evidence in, and the judges won't allow us to do it," Trump said. "We have so much evidence. You probably saw Wednesday last week we had a hearing in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. … Unbelievable witnesses, highly-respected people, that were truly aggrieved."

Biden crossed the 80 million-vote threshold on Friday with ballots still being counted, giving the former vice president a lead of more than 6 million votes.

Case after case has been rejected by judges around the country. The latest rebuff came from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which on Saturday turned down a lawsuit filed by Trump supporters seeking to contest Biden's win in the state.

Trump also complained that the Department of Justice and FBI were not helping him.

They are "missing in action," he said.

Trump’s legal team has shrugged off legal failures by saying it’s all part of a march to the Supreme Court. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority and three justices appointed by Trump -- the latest, Amy Coney Barrett, was confirmed by the Senate just weeks ago.

But Trump has been pummeled in the lower courts, in part because his campaign’s lawsuits haven’t backed up his out-of-court claims of widespread fraud.

One of Trump’s legal advisers, Jenna Ellis, said as recently as Friday that they were headed to the top court after their latest setback in Pennsylvania.

Trump also lashed out Sunday at various political enemies, including Georgia’s top two elections officials, both Republicans -- Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Governor Brian Kemp. The two men have certified Trump’s defeat in the state. “I’m ashamed that I endorsed him,” Trump said of Kemp.

Trump also endorsed Raffensperger in 2018 as someone who would be “a fantastic secretary of state.” On Thursday, the president called the Republican an “enemy of the people.”

 

Trump 'Ashamed' to Have Endorsed GOP Georgia Governor

President Donald Trump said Sunday he was "ashamed" for endorsing the Republican governor of Georgia after he lost in the state to Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump has seethed over the vote going to Joe Biden in the southern state, which hadn't voted for a Democrat for president in nearly 30 years. In January, the state will decide whether the GOP retains control of the U.S. Senate when voters decide two run-off Senate races.

Trump said on Fox News that Gov. Brian Kemp has "done absolutely nothing" to question the state's results. Trump has said that illegal votes cost him the election in Georgia and beyond. His legal challenges have failed in several states.

Trump backed Kemp's campaign in 2018, boasting that his "full endorsement" helped him edge rising Democrat Stacey Abrams.

In this month's presidential contest, Biden got about 12,670 more votes than Trump.

Democrats hope for two other upset victories in twin Senate races on Jan. 5 against Republican office holders. That would deny Republicans their majority, keeping the GOP with 50 seats, while Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would be available for tie-breaking votes.

Democrat Jon Ossoff is challenging Sen. David Perdue while Rev. Raphael Warnock takes on Sen. Kelly Loeffler. No candidate won at least 50% of the vote share in this month's election, leading to the head-to-head runoffs.

Ossoff said Sunday that a Republican-controlled Senate will hit the Biden administration with the same "obstructionism" it mounted against former President Barack Obama.

"It will be paralysis, partisan trench warfare," he told CNN. "At a moment of crisis, when we need strong action."

Loeffler on Fox News said GOP victories would be a "firewall to socialism" and the Democratic policies of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. It is Loeffler's first election cycle after Gov. Kemp appointed her to the seat in January when her predecessor resigned.

Trump on Saturday plans to arrive in the state he lost to campaign for the GOP incumbents.

"We're making sure that Georgians are fired up to turn out to vote," Loeffler said. "If we vote, we will win this election."

 

Dominion Server Crashes During Georgia Recount

A Dominion Voting Systems mobile server crashed on Sunday, delaying a recount asked for by President Donald Trump, Georgia officials said, according to WXIA-TV.

"Technicians from Dominion have been dispatched to resolve the issue," said officials in Fulton County, Georgia’s most populous county. "The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has also been alerted to the issue and is aware of efforts to resolve the problem."

Officials said that, at the time of the breakdown, most of the recount had already been completed and that it will restart on Monday and be finished by Wednesday

Dominion has been the focal point of claims by the president and his allies of voter fraud, the Washington Examiner reported. Sidney Powell, a lawyer from whom the Trump legal team distanced themselves recently, filed a federal lawsuit claiming that Georgia officials were bribed as part of a conspiracy with Dominion to rig the election in favor of  Democrat Joe Biden, claims the company has categorically denied.

The breakdown of the machines came after a federal judge ordered all the state’s voting machines not be wiped until further notice, but then reversed the order a few hours later.

Georgia already certified the election results earlier this month after a first conducted by hand showed Biden winning the state by some 13,000 votes.