A year ago, as some Republicans in Congress moved to disenfranchise Pennsylvania’s voters and throw out the state’s presidential votes, Sen. Pat Toomey opposed the move, defying the president he had previously supported.
“I rise to defend the right of my citizens, my constituents, to vote in the presidential election,” Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on the Senate floor hours after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. “Even if Congress did have the constitutional responsibility to judge the worthiness of a state’s election process, which it does not, rejecting Pennsylvania’s electoral votes would still be wildly out of proportion to the purported offenses and very damaging to our republic.”
None of the Republicans hoping to replace Toomey would say this week if they would take a similar stand.
The Inquirer contacted the five most prominent Republicans declared as Senate candidates or likely to run, asking if they believe President Joe Biden won the 2020 election and if they would have certified Pennsylvania’s election results, as nearly all senators did.
Only one candidate responded in any way. Jeff Bartos, a Montgomery County real estate developer, acknowledged Biden’s victory, as he has multiple times in the past.
But neither Bartos nor any other candidate commented on whether they would have voted to certify Pennsylvania’s election results — a position taken by Toomey and 91 other senators in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot. (Toomey isn’t seeking...
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