While the Electoral College members officially voted Monday and completed Joe Biden’s win in the presidential election, a number of right-wing media outlets were busy promoting another maneuver: State Republican Parties putting up their own “elector” slates for President Donald Trump — in states that Biden actually won — which carry no legal weight.
“As we speak, today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote, and we’re going to send those results up to Congress,” White House adviser Stephen Miller declared on Monday’s edition of Fox & Friends. “This will ensure that all of our legal remedies remain open.”
In addition to continued legal challenges, Miller also urged the Republican-led legislatures in the swing states, as well as Congress itself, to “do the right thing” — an odd way to describe the prospect of rejecting the Biden electors that were certified by those states’ popular votes.
Right-wing media promote fake “elector” slates for Donald Trump | Media Matters for America