Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
The Right is now pressuring and protesting GOP leadership to defend President Trump.
No. Cruz and co are not defending Trump. Their press release is not about Trump. They are defending the credibility of American elections.
The R establishment is not going to defend Trump; perhaps they should, but they won't. They detest him. If this effort is branded as yet another part of the Trump phenomenon there is no way the R party will unite behind it.
Mitch McConnell & the GOP establishment have a real revolt to deal with now.
McConnell, Cornyn, and the rest of them must be made to understand that this is about
elections, not about Trump; that their constituencies have been harmed by the procedures followed in PA and other states during this election; and if they don't get on board the effort to preserve credible elections they'll be primaried.
They might not be able to win this one, but they damn sure better fight.
If they don't fight this then they're telling us that it's OK for PA to have 200,000 completely fictitious "votes" included in its final tally; that it's OK for GA to send the poll watchers home and then immediately break out additional cases of ballots to continue counting with no oversight; that it's OK for precincts and counties to report 99% of their votes for one candidate during the wee hours of the morning.
By all means the R establishment needs to feel the wrath of the R voters, but that establishment simply will not get behind an attempt to rescue Trump. It doesn't matter whether they should, they won't. This cannot be about Trump if it's going to have a chance of uniting significant numbers of R office holders. It must be about elections.