Thousands attended the March for Trump rally in Washington, D.C. last weekend. | JFairley
Thousands attended the March for Trump rally in Washington, D.C. last weekend. | JFairley
Connie Chilensky was determined to attend the Nov. 14 March for Trump but didn’t want to drive alone from Warren. So, she made fast friends on the Million MAGA March Facebook page with two strangers. They carpooled for 5 hours.
“Jobs are at stake and I don't want to be subject to another lockdown,” Chilensky said.
Chilensky is among thousands of who marched from Freedom Plaza to the U.S. Supreme Court building across from the Capitol to protest the results of Election Day in support of President Trump.
“Biden got everything all messed up and I think we're going to lose all our freedoms,” she said in an interview at the rally. “We're gonna lose our guns. Just everything's going to go.”
President-elect Biden's proposed gun policy is at his campaign website, and does not include abolishing the Second Amendment.
The Associated Press reported incumbent President Donald Trump won the state of Ohio with 53.4% of votes compared to 45.2% for challenger Joe Biden. However, virtually every media outlet named Biden the president-elect because he won a projected 306 electoral votes compared to President Trump’s 232.
The election has lead to multiple lawsuits, including one in Pennsylvania by the Trump campaign that was rejected by the state's Supreme Court yesterday.
Another lawsuit, which the New York Post reports is still pending in Pennsylvania court, is trying to block the certification of results that include absentee and mail-in ballots, which were allegedly "improperly permitted to be cured."
President Trump tweeted on Nov. 15 that he would be filing another lawsuit soon: “Many of the court cases being filed all over the Country are not ours, but rather those of people that have seen horrible abuses. Our big cases showing the unconstitutionality of the 2020 Election, & the outrage of things that were done to change the outcome, will soon be filed!”
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, as previously reported by CBS News.
The fact that they were voluntarily dismissed without prejudice means the complaints can be refiled.
The rally was part of a grassroots effort planned by various pro-Trump groups around the country to show a united front, to demand transparency in elections, and to protect election integrity. Trump supporters traveled from as far away as California, South Dakota and Oregon to participate.