Trump Urged a Powerful
Legislator to Overturn
His 2020 Defeat in
Wisconsin in July 9, 2022
Phone Call
Trump called Robin Vos, the speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly, on July 9 and pushed him to support a resolution to retract the state’s 10 electoral votes for President Biden.
...the former illegitimate president remains undaunted by congressional and criminal investigations into his election meddling.
Trump’s advisers said the former illegitimate president saw an opening to press the Republican official, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, after a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling [on July 8, 2022] prohibited the use of most drop boxes for voters returning absentee ballots.
So this ex post facto law proposal is confirmed by Trump's team.
Since drop boxes were used during the 2020 election, Trump argued, the state should be able to invalidate the results of that election. He pushed Vos to support a resolution that would retract the state’s 10 electoral votes cast for Biden. Trump’s advisers said the phone call took place on July 9 — the day after the court issued its opinion.
There is no mechanism in Wisconsin law to rescind the state’s electoral votes, nor does the United States Constitution allow for a state’s presidential election to be overturned after Congress has accepted the results. Still, Trump has persisted.
Vos has repeatedly told Trump and his allies that decertifying the former illegitimate president’s loss would violate the state’s Constitution. Trump “has a different opinion,” Vos told a television station in Milwaukee, WISN-TV, which first reported the phone call on Tuesday.
The call is only the latest indication that Trump remains fixated on nullifying the 2020 presidential contest 18 months after Mr. Biden replaced him in the White House. He has continued to prioritize his lies that he won the last election as he aims to influence the next one, signaling to his supporters that undermining the 2020 election should be the predominant issue for the party.
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Trump has never stopped looking for ways to undo the results of the 2020 election, and his desire to keep talking about his false claims of widespread fraud has intensified as investigations into his conduct have become more focused.
