One of President Trump’s top Republican allies pleaded with members of his party to “stand and fight” alongside the president.
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz alleged a number of fraudulent voting tactics before calling on the Republican Party to back Trump or suffer the consequences in future elections.
“President Trump is not just fighting for his own political fortune here — he’s fighting for the rest of us because if we allow dead people to vote, if we allow people who’ve moved out of their state to vote in that state, if we allow illegal ballots to be counted, and if we allow ballots to be counted without the transparency and observation that the law requires, Republicans will never win another election ever again,” he told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
The Trump reelection campaign is eyeing lawsuits in a number of states where large batches of mail-in ballots contributed to the most votes cast ever recorded in a U.S. presidential election.
Gaetz called on state legislatures to perform audits on the voting rolls to provide transparency to an election that has featured consistent allegations of fraud from both parties in the final stretch to Election Day.
“There’s a difference between a recount and audit,” Gaetz said. “Every state legislature seeing these irregularities should demand an audit, and they should not be willing to certify electors to the Electoral College until those audits have been completed.”
Gaetz said he is prepared to take unprecedented steps, including making a stand in Congress to block the Electoral College vote from being confirmed.
“A full audit is absolutely necessary,” Gaetz added. “I’ll fight on the floor of the House of Representatives from stopping the Electoral College from being certified.”
