孤獨過客
2020-11-06 15:20:24
Only Cruz and Graham support Trump
Some prominent Republican lawmakers backed President Trump after he took aim at the media, election officials and Democrats for the current state of the vote count, while others emphasized the need to conduct a fair, lawful election.
"Mainstream media polling is designed to suppress Republican votes," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Fox News. “But I'm here tonight to stand with President Trump, he's stood with me."
Mr. Graham said he planned to donate $500,000 to the president's legal fund and encouraged the president's supporters to do the same.
"What we are seeing tonight, what we have been seeing in the last few days is outrageous," Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) said on Fox News. "It is partisan. It is political. And it is lawless."
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) said the fact that House GOP incumbents defeated Democratic challengers this week indicated that Mr. Trump had to be winning.
“What’s very interesting here and shows more of the fraud: Not one Republican incumbent lost,” Mr. McCarthy said on Fox News Thursday night. “How would President Trump lose in an atmosphere like that?”
Mr. McCarthy accused states and localities of perpetrating widespread voter fraud in order to tilt the election toward Mr. Biden.
Some Republicans took a more measured approach.