The Michigan lawmakers said they had “not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome.”
A delegation of Republican state lawmakers from Michigan came to Washington on Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s Hail Mary attempt to usurp the results of the election he lost.
But when the day ended, the lawmakers were unequivocal: President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Michigan was still intact.
Trump has baselessly cast doubt on the presidential election in Michigan, which he lost Biden by approximately 150,000 votes, and has waged a campaign over the past two weeks to pressure Republicans in the state to back him in reversing the outcome. And despite White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s insistence that Friday’s gathering was “not an advocacy meeting” — and that no one from the Trump campaign would be present — several attorneys running Trump’s legal effort to overturn the election were expected to call in. Continue reading.