ALLENTOWN (KDKA) – Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey has said
that President Donald Trump has “exhausted all plausible legal options to
challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania.”
“With today’s decision by Judge Matthew Brann, a longtime
conservative Republican whom I know to be a fair and unbiased jurist, to
dismiss the Trump campaign’s lawsuit, President Trump has exhausted all
plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in
Pennsylvania,” Senator Toomey said in a statement.
Senator Toomey’s statement comes after Judge Brann dismissed
a lawsuit from the Trump campaign that sought to delay the certification of the
election results in Pennsylvania.
“I congratulate President-elect Biden and Vice
President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory,” Senator Toomey’s statement
said. “They are both dedicated public servants and I will be praying for them
and for our country. Unsurprisingly, I have significant policy disagreements
with the President-elect. However, as I have done throughout my career, I will
seek to work across the aisle with him and his administration, especially on
those areas where we may agree, such as continuing our efforts to combat
COVID-19, breaking down barriers to expanding trade, supporting the men and
women of our armed forces, and keeping guns out of the hands of violent
criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.
Toomey also called on President Trump to accept the result
and begin the transition process.
“To ensure that he is remembered for these outstanding
accomplishments, and to help unify our country, President Trump should accept
the outcome of the election and facilitate the presidential transition
process,” the statement concluded.
