Elected Deputy Burgess Owens (R-Utah) expressed support to challenge the Electoral College vote declaring the President-elect Joe Biden
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Owens, who was endorsed by Trump, said The Salt Lake Tribune in an interview, he “absolutely” believes Trump has 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 will certify election results on Wednesday, a move several lawmakers want to block in a long-running effort to reverse the election.
Owens, a former NFL player, compared the fight to his experience in football, saying he plans to “leave everything on the field” for the president.
“In 10 years in the NFL, I played in a lot of losing games,” he said. “If you leave everything on the field and you’ve done everything and there’s nothing left, it’s a winning game regardless of the score.”
Utah’s elected representative called for joining the fight against Electoral College election “doing the right thing,” because “more than 70 percent of Conservatives say” the election is “not fair,” said the stand.
In his interview, Owens cited a theory that 42,000 votes were counted twice in Nevada, which state officials have 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 has not been fair. “
Owens predicted that the public “will get a chance [to] hear things some people have never heard ‘without specifying what information would be shared.
“My goal is really to make sure I’m doing everything I can to get this to every legal goal we have,” he told the paper. “And once the official count is done, we respect whoever the president is.”
Owens joins over 30 House representatives and more than 10 incoming representatives who have said they intend to contest the vote of the Electoral College. The first GOP senator, Sen. Josh Hawley
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Republicans hope that the House and Senate vote to support objections to certain state positions could change the results of the election, but the move seems unlikely as Democrats control the House and some Senate Republicans have objected to that plan .