Just two months ago, a beaming Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson appeared on a “Defending Democracy” podcast with Democratic attorney Marc Elias to discuss concerns about certifying the 2024 election. “We’ll get the results certified,” Benson told Elias, the man best known as the mastermind behind the “Steele dossier” that fueled the Russia collusion hoax against Donald Trump. “What will happen, also, is there will be legal consequences” for local officials who refuse.
“I think it’s going to be much harder legally, practically, realistically for anyone to not certify and get away with it,” Benson, a former hate crimes investigator for the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center, told Elias. “If they don’t like the election results, we’ll be there the minute, the second it happens.”
Fast forward to now, and Elias is leading an effort to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania, where The Associated Press has already called the U.S. Senate race for Republican Dave McCormick.
“The Pennsylvania Senate race is not over,” Elias posted to X on Thursday. “More soon.” “Election day has past (sic), but the fight for democracy continues. Here is some of what my firm has been up to:” Elias posed in a follow up on Saturday. “Thursday: Intervened against rightwing lawsuit in Pennsylvania.” In other posts, Elias pointed to a statement from the Pennsylvania Department of State that shows “at least 100,000 ballots remaining to be adjudicated” and Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick’s 32,000 vote lead over Democrat Bob Casey.
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