Republicans must support voters who agree with former Attorney General Barr about "bullshit"!

Applaud the leaders who did not cave to Trump!

Echo opinion letter published in The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, New York.  

While many Republicans supported the former guy Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020, presidential election was “stolen,” it is important to acknowledge the courage of those Republican leaders who resisted Trump’s pressure to overturn the election results.

Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes sufficient to overturn his state’s (Georgia's) results. Trump also pressured Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to replace the state’s electors. These men investigated allegations of voter fraud and found them all without merit. They refused to give in to the pressure.
The leaders of GOP-controlled legislatures in key states did not waver as Trump’s team pushed the “independent state legislature” theory, which holds that the Constitution bestows on state legislatures plenary power to appoint presidential electors.

Republican-appointed judges also displayed courage under fire. Not one Trump-appointed district judge allowed his baseless lawsuits to proceed.

Eventually, the US Supreme Court also rejected Trump’s bid to overturn the results in four close states.

Attorney General William P. Barr and virtually every other top Justice Department appointee did not bend when Trump told them to declare the election was corrupt. (In fact, Attorney General Barr called the baseless acquisitions "bullshit"!)

We should applaud these Republican leaders for refusing to succumb to Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 election results.

From Don Steiner in Schenectady New York

(Check out the video where former Attorney General Barr calls the election denial "bullshit" at this video site here.)