Elected Mayor Burgess Owens (R-Utah) has expressed his support for challenging the Electoral College’s vote to elect the President-elect Joe Biden
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Owens, endorsed by Trump, said The Salt Lake Tribune in an interview that he “absolutely” believes that Trump won the presidential election, despite Biden being widely recognized as the president-elect since November.
“I have no doubt I think he won,” he said.
The comments from the incoming Utah representative come as Congress has to confirm the election results on Wednesday, a step that several lawmakers plan to reverse in a long-running effort to reverse the election.
Owens, a former NFL player, likened the fight to his experience in football and said he plans to “leave everything on the field” for the president.
“In ten years in the NFL, I played a lot of losing games,” he said. “If you leave everything on the field and do everything you can and there is nothing left, then it’s a winning game regardless of the score.”
The elected representative of Utah said it was the right thing to dispute the Electoral College because ‘more than seventy percent of the Conservatives say’ the election ‘is not fair’, according to the Tribune.
In his interview, Owens cites a theory that 42,000 votes were counted twice in Nevada, which government officials denied. He also said after living in Pennsylvania for more than two decades: ‘I know how the Democratic Party did things. [there], and it was not fair. ”
Owens predicted the public would ‘have a chance’ [to] hear things that some people have never heard before ”without specifying what information would be shared.
“My goal is basically just to make sure I do everything in my power to take it to every legitimate goal,” he told the newspaper. ‘And when the official count is over, we respect whoever the president is. ‘
Owens join more than 30 House representatives and more than ten incoming representatives who said they intended to challenge the Electoral College. The first GOP senator, Sen. Josh Hawley
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Republicans hope the House and Senate vote to support objections to certain statements could change the outcome of the election, but the move appears unlikely as Democrats control the House and some Republicans in the Senate have objected.