Mr. Bannon, Mr. Lindell, and Mr. Epshteyn have repeatedly promoted state-level decertification in Mr. Bannon, “War Room”, pushing it like a steady drum beat and sometimes claiming it could lead to Mr. Trump is reinstated. They have described the so-called audit movement that started in Arizona and spread to other states as part of a larger effort to decertify electoral votes.
“We are on a full, full freight train to decertify,” Mr Epshteyn said on the program in January. “That’s what we’re going to get. Everybody knows. Everyone knows this election was stolen.”
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Debating a criminal referral. The Jan. 6 commission has become divided over whether former President Donald J. Trump should be criminally referred to the Justice Department, even though it has concluded that she has sufficient evidence to do so. The debate revolves around whether a referral would backfire by politically sullying the expanding federal investigation.
last fall, 186 state legislators from 39 states Joined a letter written by Wendy Rogers, an Arizona Republican senator appearing at events hosted by Mr. Lindell, calling on “every state to decertify its voters where the election has been shown to be premature and inaccurate.”
All efforts have either failed or been dismissed for lack of legal grounds in the absence of any evidence of widespread voter fraud that could have influenced the 2020 election. And even as elected Republicans have almost uniformly embraced Mr. Trump’s claims that the vote was stolen, many have rejected the idea that states should decertify their results or argued that the effort was merely symbolic, noting that he could never be. recovered.
Still, Mr. Trump is now leading the polls of the potential Republican presidential field. While he hasn’t announced his candidacy yet, he has privately told his associates that he plans to start running again.
A spokesman for Mr Trump did not respond to an email asking for comment.
The legal push to reverse its 2020 loss has had ripples across the Republican Party. With the midterm congressional elections less than six months away, pressure has been pushing candidates to either support it or risk the wrath of Mr Trump and his supporters. In Alabama, Representative Mo Brooks said the former president had repeatedly demanded that he “revoke” the election and remove Mr Biden. When the congressman said that was impossible, Mr. Trump withdrew his endorsement in the state’s Republican primary.
In Pennsylvania, Jake Corman, the highest-ranking Republican in the state’s Senate who pledged to review the 2020 election results last year, said he had dropped plans to end his bid for governor after Mr. keep on fighting”. He then went to the podcast of Mr. Bannon, where Mr. Corman said there was “no doubt” about the need to investigate whether voters in battlefield states should be withdrawn, and pledged to “turn the State Department upside down” to find evidence of illegality.