The campaign of Gov. Kathy Hochul hit her Republican challenger, Lee Zeldin, hard for text messages the Long Island Congress member sent to a Trump administration official nearly 3 years ago regarding plans to discredit the 2020 presidential election.
, consist of two comprehensive plans or ideas sent from Zeldin to Meadows, indicating intentions to discredit the 2020 presidential election results ahead of the contest.
“Mark, [two] ideas: 1) upload vetted voting irregularities onto one narrowly focused, credible microsite with a donation link for the President’s legal fund for all of us to reference,” according to the text sent from Zeldin to Meadows sometime in November of 2020. “Needs to be done instantly.
Trump lost the election to Joe Biden, but nonetheless claimed without valid evidence that the contest had been “stolen” from him through unfounded election fraud. Trump continued to propagate this “Big Lie” over the following three months, ultimately culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack by a mob of his supporters upon the U.S. Capitol as the House and Senate convened to certify the election results in Biden’s favor.
Hours after the failed insurrection, Zeldin was one of 149 Republican House members who later voted against certifying the electoral votes of six swing states that Trump lost.the creation of an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack., that there was wrongdoing in the 2020 presidential election that Biden won and Trump lost.
These texts between Zeldin and Meadows were leaked a day after Zeldin received an endorsement from former President Trump on the
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