Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Slams Texas Lt. Gov over $ 1 Million Voter Fraud Reward, Alleges Republican Fraud Attempt

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman scoffed at the infamous $ 1 million reward offered by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Tuesday by reporting an apparent attempt at vote fraud by a Republican in Keystone State.

“Hey, Governor Patrick, this is your counterpart in Pennsylvania. I would like to collect your nice reward for reporting voter fraud. I have a guy in Forty Fort, PA who tried to get his late mother to vote for Trump,” Fetterman tweeted. “I would like mine in Sheetz gift cards.”

The tweet came just hours after Patrick announced in a press release that he would pay up to $ 1 million from his campaign to get people to come forward and report election fraud across the country, despite no evidence to suggest that widespread electoral fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election. Patrick said he supported President Donald Trump’s “efforts to identify voter fraud,” but offered no legitimate evidence to back up his claims.

“Whistleblowers and tipsters should turn their evidence over to local law enforcement. Anyone who provides information leading to an arrest and final conviction for electoral fraud will receive a minimum of $ 25,000,” Patrick said in the Press release.

During a Wednesday appearance on CNN, Fetterman doubled down and discussed the alleged attempted voter fraud.

“The fraud we know that occurred in Pennsylvania in this cycle is that a registered Republican from Luzerne County attempted to vote for Trump with his deceased mother’s ballot,” he said. “Other than that, no, we haven’t seen any voter fraud here in Pennsylvania.”

The presidential race was called for Joe Biden on Saturday after the president-elect received all 20 votes from the Pennsylvania Electoral College. While the grueling process of counting provisional and mail-in ballots is still ongoing in several counties across the state, Biden leads Trump with just over 50,000 votes.

“Math doesn’t care about his feelings, he doesn’t care about anyone’s feelings. Math in Pennsylvania is overwhelming for the president,” Fetterman said.

Trump, who has refused to concede or begin the transition process, and his campaign on Monday launched a lawsuit in federal court to block the outcome of the Pennsylvania election, arguing that Democratic voters were being treated more favorably than voters. Republican voters and alleging baseless fraud allegations. However, the Trump campaign has provided no evidence to back up these claims.

Few of the lawsuits in Pennsylvania have yielded results for Trump, and those lawsuits are unlikely to change the outcome of the state’s election. The United States Supreme Court formally asked Pennsylvania counties to separate the ballots last week in the event of a ruling that would find unconstitutional their three-day extension to accept ballots that were canceled by election day. While this was viewed as a “victory” for Trump by the GOP, counties were already separating these ballots and counting them separately.

On CNN, Fetterman added that he would not be surprised if the Trump campaign carried the 10,000 mail-in ballots received after election day to the Supreme Court, since Biden’s lead would exceed that number.

“The bottom line is that there is no truth to all of this and at some point we all have to collectively accept that shouting ‘election fraud’ when there is no evidence of it is is screaming ‘fire’ in a crowded theater, “he said. “It hurts our country’s democratic frankness and the peaceful transition of power, and we cannot accept this.”

Patrick’s million dollar award has come under heavy criticism on social media, while Jim Clancy, the former chairman of the Texas Ethics Committee, told CBS News that the large sum of ‘money could be “an in-kind contribution to Donald Trump’s campaign.”

In a radio interview with The Mark Davis Show in October, Patrick claimed Democrats were trying to steal the election, saying “If the president loses Pennsylvania or North Carolina […] or in Florida, they will lose it because they stole it. “

“Again, this has to stop. This is nonsense,” Fetterman said in response to Patrick’s award.

Newsweek contacted Lt. Gov. Patrick’s office for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.