A group of lawmakers who back the White House challenge to the election is growing angry with Republican naysayers, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, believing President Trump deserves their support because he worked overtime to help them win reelection.
“He supported them, and they all won because of him,” said incoming Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in an interview.
“Listen, President Trump gave rallies in every single state. He supported every single Republican running for office. He did fundraisers for them, and I’m talking about Mitch McConnell too. He did fundraisers for all of them, he tweeted for them, he supported them,” said Greene, who organized a Trump meeting Monday with a group of House Freedom Caucus members.
“Now it’s time for Republicans to look at the hard truth and step out of the shadows and get involved and get into this fight,” she said, adding, “If they can’t do what’s right, truthful, and honest, and stop a stolen election, then I don’t know why they want to be an elected member of Congress.”
Hello Texas!! ???
Our numbers are growing and only a fraction are public right now.@Lancegooden will have some more fellow Texans joining him soon!#FightForTrump https://t.co/D2RY3WGuot
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) December 22, 2020
Greene left the Oval Office meeting and immediately called on Republicans to urge their House and Senate members to join a bid by Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks to use a path in the Constitution and vote down Electoral College votes that have been questioned by the White House due to fraud concerns. That vote occurs on Jan. 6.
Brooks and several other GOP leaders of the House challenge, including Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep. Matt Gaetz, conferred with Trump and his legal team to discuss examples of fraud. They plan to present it during a debate on Jan. 6 in the House before the vote to confirm the Electoral College vote for Biden.
Trump, Greene said, fully backs the effort that needs support from at least one senator to work. At least four GOP senators have indicated they will help.
Great meeting today with @realDonaldTrump and @MarkMeadows and @RudyGiuliani my homies @andybiggs4az @RepMoBrooks @mattgaetz and others. President is resolute.
We will not accept disenfranchisement of 80 million who cast a vote for @POTUS
This sedition will be stopped. pic.twitter.com/HDG8CdUMIL— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) December 22, 2020
McConnell has urged GOP senators to move on and embrace Biden’s victory.
Greene said that Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both appeared “in good spirits.” She said, “They know that they’re right. The president knows he’s right.”
In urging GOP doubters to stand down, Greene told Secrets that the president “deserves his day in court.”
And she said GOP leaders should pay attention to polling that 70% of those who backed Trump’s reelection feel he was robbed.
“He has fought for the American people. And that’s why the American people love him. And what Republicans in the House and Senate, and especially Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, don’t realize is that, over the past four years, the Republican voters are loyal to President Trump, not necessarily the Republican Party. And they know this election was stolen,” Greene said in the phone interview.
She also brushed off critics of efforts to challenge Electoral Votes. The Washington Post, for example, called them “misfits,” and others have accused Trump and his supporters of mounting a coup.
“The media are the ones that have attempted a coup by lying to the American people about Russian collusion 24/7. And we could care less. You know, this country was founded by people who are willing to fight for freedom and stand up for what’s right. And that’s what we’re doing in Congress, and so, you know, they should take a lesson from us and fight like American patriots,” she said.
