Republicans filed 12 cases in Pennsylvania in an ‘aggressive’ push to end the recount

FIRST ON FOX – Top Republican Party officials announced Monday that they will file 12 lawsuits in Pennsylvania as part of an ongoing “harassment” effort to protect their guns in the hotly contested state Senate race.

Speaking to reporters on a phone call Monday, GOP officials said they were working closely with Republican Dave McCormick’s campaign in an effort to defend his Senate victory against three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, who refused to concede defeat and won. a national narrative.

Both the national and state Republican parties have filed lawsuits in four counties across Pennsylvania, urging the courts to count invalid ballots and invalid or missing dates, in accordance with a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision earlier this month.

Republicans have noted the disdain they have received from leaders in some Democratic districts, including Philadelphia, including Bucks County, Center County and Delaware County – the four areas where the GOP is focusing its initial impeachment.

“Democrat officials in the video say they will choose to break the law, and there will be legal consequences for that,” a senior party official told Fox News.

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In addition to these lawsuits, party officials told Fox News on Monday that they will file eight other challenges in courts in Pennsylvania. The effort is aimed at ensuring that McCormick’s victory is preserved, and to ensure that only valid votes are counted.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled before the election that mail-in ballots without legally required signatures or dates should not be included in the official results.

But Democratic officials in Philadelphia and other parts of the state, including Bucks County, Center County, and Montgomery County, did not comply with that order, RNC officials said, leading to the lawsuit.

Speaking to reporters on a phone call Monday, Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley said top RNC officials were “coordinating closely with Dave McCormick’s campaign to ensure that this hard-won seat will be secured.”

He also vowed to maintain an “aggressive, comprehensive and strategic legislative stance as long as it takes to ensure this election is vindicated” in Pennsylvania.

“The RNC and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania are fighting hard to end this vile and despicable behavior” in the state, Whatley said.

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) listens as David McCormick, a candidate for United States Senator, speaks during a campaign rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, November 4, 2024. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

McCormick’s unofficial margin of victory stood at about 17,000 votes, or within the required 0.5% margin. under Pennsylvania law to start automatic narration.

But RNC officials challenged the idea that the Senate recount—which will continue until Nov. 26 – will change the result in any strong way.

They criticized the effort, which cost about $1 million, as a waste of taxpayer money, noting that since 2000, there have been only three recounts in Pennsylvania, and each resulted in an estimated change of 393 votes.

In a “worst-case” scenario, they said, provisional, mail-in and absentee ballots could reduce McCormick’s margin of victory “to maybe 14,000 votes”.

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A large crowd awaits the arrival of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, PA on Saturday, October 5, 2024. (Matthew McDermott of Fox News Digital)

Accordingly, state and state Republican officials said they have sent “hundreds of lawyers and other observers” down to recount sites “in every county in Pennsylvania,” they said, to ensure the process is conducted freely and impartially.

Speaking to reporters Monday, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman Lawrence Tabas looked at the cost of the recount, which is estimated at $1 million.

He also criticized the political implications of the recount, which he said threatened to destroy voter confidence in the electoral process.

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This has been a claim often repeated by Republicans as they seek to oppose the recount.

“Casey’s campaign could end the recount at any time,” Tabas said. “And there are political consequences that destroy voter confidence in the current election. So we need to stop this campaign and declare McCormick the winner.”

At the end of the day, he said: “There is no mathematical way to achieve what the people at Casey apparently think they can achieve.”