PA Senate Candidates Hire Trump Lawyers For Recount

Politico reports:

Both Oz and McCormick have enlisted alumni from former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign to gird themselves for a potential recount. Mike Roman, the director of Trump’s Election Day operations, is helping the McCormick team, according to a source familiar with his efforts.

The Oz campaign has brought onboard James Fitzpatrick, who led Pennsylvania’s Election Day operations for Trump.

In addition, the McCormick campaign has hired veteran Republican lawyer Chuck Cooper to be the lead of their legal efforts, according to a person familiar with the matter. Cooper won Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-Fla.) 2018 recount effort and also recently won the Supreme Court campaign finance case brought by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

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Cooper appeared on JMG in 2017 when he was hired by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to represent him during testimony in the Mueller investigation. Cooper defended Proposition 8 before the US Supreme Court on behalf of California’s viciously anti-gay Protect Marriage, but made a U-turn in 2014, declaring that his own daughter’s marriage to a woman had changed his mind on the issue.
 

A source said they got a call from Vanguard Field Strategies, which said it was helping the McCormick camp with a possible recount. The company said it is looking to bring in 300 people, and offered paid travel, a rental car and $125/day, per the source. https://t.co/atnYd3t3In

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