Republicans are circling the wagons around President Trump as allegations of voter fraud in several key battleground states are gaining momentum.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said he donated $500,000 to the president’s election defense fund, which was launched following the highly contested outcome of elections in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Michigan.
“I’m gonna donate $500,000 tonight to President Trump’s defense legal fund,” Graham told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night. “Give to donaldjtrump.com so that we’ll have the resources to fight.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham tells Fox News’ Sean Hannity he has donated $500,000 to Pres. Trump’s election defense fund:
“[Democrats] are just trying to get an outcome, damn the law, damn the outcome.”pic.twitter.com/frr8WDxlXT
— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) November 6, 2020
As of Thursday evening, the race in Pennsylvania was still too close to call, with 90% reporting and Trump holding a razor-thin lead as potentially hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots are waiting to be counted. Trump’s personal lawyers said he was “en route to Pennsylvania” on Wednesday to investigate the vote counting in the vital battleground state that could decide the 2020 election.
Graham, who held off a high-dollar effort to unseat him from the Senate, told Hannity that allegations of election fraud were “earth-shattering” as several states continue to count a record number of votes cast in a U.S. presidential election.
Graham said he did not trust the vote count totals in Pennsylvania, which he called “crooked as a snake” before saying that “everything should be on the table” in terms of investigating the vote counting in certain states.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tells Sean Hannity that Republicans in Pennsylvania should consider sending Trump electors to the Electoral College:
“Everything should be on the table.” pic.twitter.com/IG5dWpEJxR
— The Recount (@therecount) November 6, 2020
Trump made similar accusations about Pennsylvania and other states during a press conference at the White House that was censored by several major news networks who have called the allegations of fraud “untrue.”
The race has yet to be decided in Pennsylvania, where votes are still being counted. Votes are being counted in Georgia, where Trump is ahead, but Joe Biden is closing fast in the final stretch. Arizona, which both the Associated Press and Fox News called for Biden on election night, is in the balance, with Trump allies saying the president can still claim victory.
