Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman didn’t hold back when commenting on Donald Trump’s attempts to attack the counting of all legally cast ballots, calling the president “no different from any other random internet troll” in an MSNBC interview. Pennsylvania is one of the biggest prizes still up for grabs in this election and as of now still has about half of all its mail-in ballots to count, which are expected to largely go to Joe Biden.
The Democratic leadership in the state is not at all happy with Trump’s interference in the vote tallying process, which Fetterman made absolutely clear with MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson earlier today.
“It’s what I said yesterday, that the president is not different from any other random internet troll, saying crazy things that have no basis in reality,” he said when Jackson asked him for his reaction to Trump’s comments. “And Twitter constantly puts those kinds of statements on hold and none of those [have] any factual basis.”
The Republican party has already asked a judge in Pennsylvania to block some of the state’s votes from being counted. Meanwhile, conservative protesters in Detroit have gathered outside a building where ballots are being tallied, trying to force their way in and demanding that the counting stop.
Fetterman dismissed the entire idea that counting the ballots is somehow fraud as a “story” that Republicans are inventing for themselves.
“It’s their story and they’re gonna try to tell it the way they want to but that doesn’t have, again, any basis in reality,” he said. “These ballots have all been received before or on Election Day before 8 pm and they will be counted, and those, when they’re finalized, is going to be some total of how Pennsylvania has weighed in on this presidential election.”
“I don’t know how you litigate that.”
Fetterman’s tough and uncompromising words on the issue of counting votes that could ultimately determine the fate of the entire world has earned him, and his beard, some fans.
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