President Donald Trump called the election 'rigged' as he phoned into a Gettysburg event held before Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers. The event also featured Rudy Giuliani.
"This election was rigged and we can't let that happen. We can't let that happen for our county. This election has to be turned around," said President Trump. He said he won 'easily' and by 'a lot.' He said he also heard 'horror stories' about the election in Pennsylvania.
However, the President's claims of widespread voter fraud remain unproven in Pennsylvania and his campaign has faced a number of legal setbacks. In Pennsylvania, Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by 80,555 votes. That's nearly double the votes that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by in 2016. In the 2016 race, Trump beat Clinton by 44,292 votes.
Governor Wolf announced this week that the results in Pennsylvania have been certified. On Tuesday, meantime, a judge issued a 'stay' on taking any further action from here on out on the certification as on Friday a hearing is scheduled to consider a separate legal issue filed by US Representative Mike Kelly and others to challenge mail-in ballots.
Those mail-in ballots were also a central issue for Rudy Giuliani as he spoke to the room of GOP supporters.
"If we allow elections in the future to be conducted like this election was, we will have lost our democracy," Giuliani said as he made claims of 'fraud' in the election that he claimed was done in 'different' ways and was very 'similar' in multiple states.
"This was a terrible mistake and it allowed the leadership of a party that had become pretty expert at voter fraud to really go wild," he said.
The Trump campaign was issued a blistering ruling days ago as a Pennsylvania judge threw out the bid to stop the Pennsylvania voter certification. The judge called the Trump challenge full of “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations... unsupported by evidence.” An appeal was filed on Sunday. Pennsylvania's election results have now been certified, declaring Joe Biden as the winner.
"I wouldn't call what they put together a case. I think that's basically what the judge said. This isn't even a case," said Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman.
Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey also congratulated President-elect Joe Biden following the ruling issuing a statement that read "President Trump has exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania."
"Just because you don't like the outcome of a race doesn't mean there's fraud," said Fetterman Monday. He added, Republicans can hold as many press conferences as they'd like, it won't change the results.
On Monday, House State Government Committee Chairman Republican State Rep. Seth Grove called a press conference to release an interim report on the election. He noted there was early confusion created by changing guidance from the PA Department of State and from new mail-in ballot voting rules.
But, when asked about the election results, Grove acknowledged, "as it stands to date Joe Biden has the plurality of votes in Pennsylvania. Again, there are numerous lawsuits out there that could potentially change that."
Read the entire election report here.
Fetterman noted the election was not a 'blood bath' and that Republicans had plenty to be happy about with the number of down ballot races they won. He said the recent election further proved Pennsylvania is a 'purple' state with candidates from both parties gaining victory.
As for the Trump campaign, he said "it's one thing to throw a Hail Mary pass when there's five seconds on the clock. They're throwing Hail Mary passes when the clock expired."