- Republican-elect Congressman Burgess Owens of Utah said on Thursday that he would support the challenge of President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential victory in the House and said that “there was no doubt” that President Donald Trump was re-elected to a second term.
- In an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, Owens said his goal was “to make sure I’m doing everything I can to bring this to all the legal purposes we have”.
- Owens defeated Democratic Representative Ben McAdams’ first term in one of the most disputed parliamentary disputes in the country.
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In an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s elected Republican Congressman Burgess Owens said on Thursday that he would support the challenge of President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential victory in the House and said there was “no doubt” that President Donald Trump was re-elected for a second term.
Owens, a strong supporter of Trump and a prominent speaker at the 2020 Republican National Convention, said he believes Trump was victorious in the election, despite Biden securing 306 Electoral College votes against 232 Trump’s electoral votes and winning more than 7 million votes. more votes than the president.
“I have no doubt that I think he won,” said Owens.
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His comments were made at a time when Congress is due to certify the results of the Electoral College on January 6, with many Republican lawmakers, including Senator Josh Hawley, choosing to challenge the election results.
Owens, a former NFL player, likened the Republican effort to his days playing football.
“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’s nothing left, then it’s a winning game, regardless of the score.”
Owens said contesting the Electoral College was “the right thing to do” because “more than seventy percent of conservatives say it [election] it’s not fair “and their opinions deserve to be heard, according to the Tribune.
The elected congressman said 42,000 votes were incorrectly added to the final Nevada total vote, an allegation that state officials strongly denied.
Owens also said that after living in Pennsylvania, “the Democratic Party has done things” in the state that are not “fair”, but has provided no solid evidence of any electoral irregularities in the 2020 presidential election.
“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 added. “And once the official count is complete, we will respect whoever the president is.”
Since November, Trump’s legal team has contested the election across the country, triggering a series of high-profile but overwhelmingly unsuccessful lawsuits to nullify the election results.