West Central PA News

Recent knee surgery didn’t stop Erika Hall from attending the March for Trump rally in Washington, D.C. last weekend.

“I flew from Pennsylvania to California, picked up my friend and we drove here from California,” Hall told West Central PA News. “We’re here to stop the steal.”

"Stop the steal" is a common phrase used among some Trump supporters who have been questioning Election Day results ever since the Associated Press reported Joe Biden won Pennsylvania’s electoral votes with 49.9% of state votes compared to 48.9% for President Trump. 

Erika Hall | JFairley

Although results have yet to be certified, election officials have found no evidence of significant voter irregularities in Pennsylvania or throughout the United States. 

“I'm just really concerned about socialism,” Hall said in an interview. “I don't want us to end up a socialist country.”

The Tamaqua, Pennsylvania resident was among thousands of Trump supporters who marched from Freedom Plaza to the U.S. Supreme Court building across the street from the Capitol on Nov. 14, protesting the Election Day results.

“I heard about this rally last week and I’m pumped up,” Hall said at the rally. “I've been to three rallies, carried the flag and I've gone knocking on doors, telling people about Trump.”

Christopher Blystone traveled from Indiana, Pennsylvania to join the March for Trump.

"I'm just trying to show support for our president," Blystone told the West Central PA News while marching at the rally. "If President Trump isn't re-elected, then it's not going to be a good country." 

As previously reported, Biden was named president-elect after he won 306 electoral votes compared to Trump’s 232, although the deadline for presidential electors from every state to cast their votes is Dec. 14.

Among the lawsuits the Trump campaign filed in Pennsylvania is an attempt to block the certification of results that include absentee and mail-in ballots that were allegedly “improperly permitted to be cured,” according to media reports.

U.S. News reported that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has yet to rule on the GOP lawsuit, requesting a ban on all absentee ballots that arrived after Nov. 3,  Election Day.

Late yesterday, the Trump campaign withdrew its primary Pennsylvania lawsuit, revised it, and changed lead attorneys in the case.

According to CBS News, voter groups, represented by election lawyer James Bopp Jr., voluntarily dismissed without prejudice four lawsuits that had been filed in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia. The fact that they were voluntarily dismissed without prejudice means they can be refiled.