Deputy-elect Burgess Owens (R-Utah) expressed his support to challenge the vote of the Electoral College that certified the elected president Joe Biden
Joe BidenBidens honors frontline workers in NYE speech: “We owe them, we owe them, we owe them” Hotel Trump in DC raises room rates for Biden’s grand openingvictory, saying Thursday that “there is no doubt” that President Trump
Donald Trump Trump hotel in DC raises room rates for the inauguration of Biden Republican Party Legislator criticizes Trump and colleagues for ‘trying to discredit’ the election Video shows long lines on the last day of early voting in Georgia MORE won re-election.
Owens, who was approved 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 that I think he won,” he said.
The comments from the new Utah representative come at a time when Congress is scheduled to certify the election results on Wednesday, a move that several lawmakers plan to block in a remote effort to annul the election.
Owens, a former NFL player, likened the fight to his football experience, saying he plans to “leave everything on the pitch” for the president.
“In 10 years in the NFL, I played a lot of lost games,” he said. “If you leave everything on the pitch and do everything you can and there is nothing left, then it’s a winning game, regardless of what the score is.”
Utah’s elected representative declared that joining the effort to challenge the Electoral College vote is “the right thing to do” because “more than seventy percent of conservatives say that” the election “is not fair”, according to the Tribune.
In his interview, Owens cited the theory that 42,000 votes were counted twice in Nevada, which state officials denied. He also said after living in Pennsylvania for more than two decades, “I know how the Democratic Party has done things [there], and it hasn’t been fair. “
Owens predicted that the public “will have a chance [to] hear things that some people have never heard before ”without specifying what information would be shared.
“My goal is basically to make sure that I’m doing everything I can to bring this to all the legal purposes that we have,” he told the newspaper. “And once the official count is done, we will respect whoever the president is.”
Owens joins more than 30 House representatives and more than 10 new deputies who said they plan to contest the Electoral College vote. The first GOP senator, Sen. Josh Hawley
Joshua (Josh) David Hawley GOP lawmaker criticizes Trump, colleagues for ‘trying to discredit’ Pence’s election. (R-Mo.), Promised to challenge the vote this week.
Republicans hope that the House and Senate vote to support objections to certain state counts could change the election results, but the move seems unlikely, as Democrats control the House and some Republicans in the Senate have opposed that plan.