PA Republicans Ask Congress To Reject Election Result

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

Just hours after GOP leadership in the state House indicated they would not move to upend Pennsylvania’s election results in Harrisburg, Speaker Bryan Cutler [photo] and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff joined more than 60 Republican colleagues Friday in calling on members of Congress to do it instead.

In a letter Democrats dismissed as a stunt, the GOP lawmakers disavowed the election’s outcome — an 81,000-vote victory for President-elect Joe Biden — and accused Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, of “undermining the many protections” they had written into a law passed a year ago to expand widespread voting by mail.

75 GOP Members of Pennsylvania’s House of Reps –including Speaker Bryan Cutler and Maj Leader Kerry Benninghoff — sign letter to state’s Congressional delegation in DC urging them to object to PA’s Electoral College votes being awarded to Biden Jan. 6. pic.twitter.com/QzFFPDYXkm

— Jeremy Roebuck (@jeremyrroebuck) December 4, 2020

This comes a day after Cutler and Benninghoff signed a separate letter saying PA General Assembly would not upend the results in Harrisburg and appoint electors themselves — and just hours after Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies called them “traitors” and “cowards” for it

— Jeremy Roebuck (@jeremyrroebuck) December 4, 2020