{"id":5757,"date":"2020-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-key-points-from-trump-campaign-press-conference-on-challenges-to-election-results\/"},"modified":"2020-11-19T22:04:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T22:04:40","slug":"9-key-points-from-trump-campaign-press-conference-on-challenges-to-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-key-points-from-trump-campaign-press-conference-on-challenges-to-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Key Points from Trump Campaign Press Conference on Challenges to Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F9-key-points-from-trump-campaign-press-conference-on-challenges-to-election-results%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=5757&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Giuliani said there was a pattern to the alleged irregularities in key states that suggested, he said,\u00a0a \u201cplan from a centralized place\u201d to commit voter fraud in cities controlled by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>He said widespread adoption of vote-by-mail had allowed Democrats to take big-city corruption practices nationwide. \u201cThey picked the places where they could get away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are the key allegations the lawyers presented:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Observers were allegedly prevented from watching mail-in ballots being opened.<\/strong> Giuliani said that many mail-in ballots were opened without observers being able to check that they were properly signed, a key protection against fraud. Those votes, he said, were \u201cnull and void,\u201d especially where the envelopes had been discarded, making recounts useless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Allegedly unequal application of the law in Democratic counties.<\/strong> In Pennsylvania, whose state supreme court created new, relaxed voting rules before the election, Giuliani alleged that absentee voters in Democratic counties were allowed to \u201ccure\u201d defects in their ballots, while voters in Republican counties, which obeyed the state law as written, were not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Voters allegedly arrived at the polls to discover other people had voted for them.\u00a0<\/strong>Giuliani said that many provisional ballots cast in Pittsburgh were submitted by people who showed up to vote in person, only to be told that they had voted already. He alleged that Democrats had filled out absentee ballots for other people, hoping they would not show up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Election officials were\u00a0allegedly\u00a0told not to look for defects in ballots, and to backdate ballots.<\/strong>\u00a0Giuliani cited an affidavit from an official who swore she was told not to exclude absentee ballots for defects, and to backdate ballots so they would not appear to have been received after Election Day, to avoid a Supreme Court order to sequester those ballots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Ballots casting votes for Joe Biden and no other candidates were allegedly run\u00a0several times through machines.<\/strong> Giuliani said that there were 60 witnesses in Michigan who would attest to ballots being \u201cproduced\u201d quickly and counted twice or thrice. He said that a minimum of 60,000 ballots, and a maximum of 100,000 ballots, were allegedly affected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Absentee ballots were accepted in Wisconsin without being applied for first.\u00a0<\/strong>Giuliani noted that Wisconsin state law was stricter regarding absentee ballots than most other states are, yet alleged that 60,000 absentee ballots were counted in the Milwaukee area, and 40,000 in the Madison area, without having been applied for properly by the voters who cast them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. There were allegedly \u201covervotes,\u201d with some precincts allegedly recording more voters than\u00a0residents, among other problems.\u00a0<\/strong>Giuliani said there was an unusually large number of overvotes in precincts in Michigan and in Wisconsin, which he alleged was the reason that Republicans on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers had refused to certify the results there this week. He also alleged that there were some out-of-state voters in Georgia, and people who had cast votes twice there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Voting machines and\u00a0software are allegedly owned by companies with ties to the Venezuelan regime and to left-wing donor George Soros.<\/strong>\u00a0Sidney Powell argued that U.S. votes were being counted overseas, and that Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic software were controlled by foreign interests, manipulating algorithms to change the results. Powell noted specifically that Smartmatic\u2019s owners included two Venezuelan nationals, whom she alleged had ties to the regime of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. The legal team alleged that there were statistical anomalies, such as huge batches of votes for Biden, that could not be explained except as manipulation \u2014 which, they alleged, happened in the wee hours of the morning as vote-counting had stalled. (The companies have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/19\/technology\/sidney-powell-venezuela.html\">disputed<\/a> these allegations vigorously.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. The Constitution provides a process for electing a president if the vote is corrupted.<\/strong> Jenna Ellis argued that the media, had usurped the power to declare the winner of the election. She made the point, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed68.asp\">Federalist No. 68<\/a>, that the constitutional process of selecting a president had procedural safeguards against corruption and foreign influence.<br \/>\nGiuliani said that the campaign believed that enough votes were flawed \u2014 more than double the margins between Biden and Trump in key states \u2014 that the president had a path to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani presented evidence in the form of sworn affidavits, citing two and noting that the campaign had many more from private individuals.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that several lawsuits that had been dismissed had been filed by private individuals, not the campaign directly. He said lawsuits might be filed in Arizona, and that the campaign was also examining irregularities in New Mexico and Virginia, though he said he did not think there were enough disputed votes in the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani also took on the media, arguing that they had provided misleading information and condoned threats against Trump\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of<\/em> Breitbart News Sunday <em>on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His newest e-book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\"><em>The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump\u2019s Presidency<\/em><\/a>. His recent book,<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giuliani said there was a pattern to the alleged irregularities in key states that suggested, he said,\u00a0a \u201cplan from a centralized place\u201d to commit voter fraud in cities controlled by Democrats. He said widespread adoption of vote-by-mail had allowed Democrats to take big-city corruption practices nationwide. \u201cThey picked the places where they could get away &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}