PA GOP Leader: My House Would Get ‘Bombed’ If I Didn’t Want To Help Trump Overturn Election

WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES - 2020/11/06: Protesters holding placards, waving flags as they chant slogans during the demonstration.Over 100 protesters came out to demonstrate at the elections board after Joe Biden overtook President Trump in Pennsylvania during the vote count. Protesters argue that any vote received after November 3 should not be counted. (Photo by Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Pro-Trump protesters in Wilkes-Barr, Pennsylvania on November 6, 2020. (Photo by Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (R) laid out in stark terms the pressure she and other Republicans are experiencing from their base to boost President Donald Trump’s corrupt war against the 2020 election results.

In an interview with the New York Times published on Wednesday, Ward described the backlash that she would’ve been dealt if she openly stated that she didn’t want to sign her fellow Republican colleagues’ letter last week requesting that federal Pennsylvania lawmakers invalidate the state’s Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden.

“If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’ I’d get my house bombed tonight,” Ward said.

The Republican leader told the Times that she did not join the other 64 Pennsylvania Republicans who signed the letter because she did not see it before it was sent last Friday.

Ward also said that Trump had called her to claim her state’s voting process had been plagued by voter fraud (no such voter fraud has been proven to exist, contrary to Trumpland’s claims), similar to how the President called Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler (R) twice last week to get the state’s majority-GOP legislature to send pro-Trump electors instead of the electors Biden won. Cutler rejected Trump’s push but signed the letter to Congress.

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  1. Did you think this job was 100% perks when you took it?

    Fucking cowards.

  2. You made your bed, keep lying in it.

    And the “bombers” would be Republicans, not Democrats.

    Weird how that works out, huh?

  3. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    It’s seriously fucked up that Kim Ward’s political base behaves that way. Maybe it merits some self-reflection.

  4. “If I would say to you, ‘I don’t want to do it,’ I’d get my house bombed tonight,” Ward said.

    Translation: “I am beholden to an anti-Constitutionalist, anti-American, pro-ignorance party that sees violence as an acceptable means of overturning a free and fair election.”

  5. You’re in the wrong business, Kim. That’s not how leadership works.

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