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s the House and Senate gathered to certify the Electoral College votes Jan. 6, a riotous mob gathered outside with the intent to stop them. The spectacle was a climactic moment for those who have denied the results of the 2020 presidential election, but the falsehood that it was stolen existed long before any vote was cast. Senior Brandon Geissler shared the concerns of many that the election was potentially fraudulent. “I believe Trump and his supporters had the right to a legal and democratic challenge of the election that would take place in the courts,” Geissler said. “Trump’s administration was granted this, and not enough evidence was found to change hardly any votes at all.” Geissler, a Trump supporter, expressed frustration with Trump’s persistence with claims of election fraud. “I was on board with a legal and democratic process utilizing the courts to investigate if there was large scale fraud that would have significantly altered the election results,”
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Geissler said. “That being said, the courts repeatedly struck down these claims saying there wasn’t enough evidence to support the assertion, and therefore, I do not agree with him continuing to say there was fraud to a point where the election would have had a different outcome.”
that must be made at the state level and not anything that has been found to have made a significant enough difference in this election,” he said.
“In the long term, the party will be able to heal itself if we are able to return to the values and ideals that brought us together to begin with.”
“The recent events at the Capitol have one hundred percent been an overstepping of the boundaries and something I am not afraid to condemn,” Geissler said. “It was one of the saddest days in modern American political history, if not the saddest. I have been a firm supporter of President Trump throughout his time in office; however, the recent events and since the results of fraud were denied in the courts have made me lose a great deal of support for him. My support for him has been weakened drastically over the last several weeks with his continued rhetoric of the election being fraudulent and rigged despite not having enough evidence to prove these claims in court.”
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Geissler does, however, support pursuing structural change through the states, rather than searching for inconsistencies at the national level. “I do still believe the election process is flawed to an extent with some local irregularities, but these are changes
Geissler’s waning support was compounded by the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol Building and the President’s volatile rhetoric.
The claims, which include false accusations that Hugo Chavez, the former and deceased Venezuelan President, changed votes from Trump to Biden through his ownership
