As Trump’s Election Pressure Campaign Hits Republican Officials, Some Hit Back

Republicans at the national level have mostly stayed quiet during President Trump’s month-long baseless crusade against November’s election results. But at the state and county level it’s been a different story.

Local election administrators, most of whom are elected along partisan lines, are in charge of the nuts and bolts of voting in America’s decentralized elections system.

In many cases, it’s been Republican officials who have held firm in their position that the results were not tainted by a widespread cheating scheme, despite a pressure campaign by the president unlike any in American history.