Montgomery News

Don and Patrick Phan are proud Vietnamese-Americans. They also voted for President Donald Trump over President-elect Joe Biden.

“I want Trump four more years….forever,” Don Phan said at the Nov. 14 March for Trump rally in Washington, D.C. 

The Phan brothers, who are Montgomery residents, were among thousands of Trump supporters who marched from Freedom Plaza to the U.S. Supreme Court building across from the Capitol on Saturday, questioning Election Day results. President Trump briefly rode by the crowd in a motorcade.

“I feel that this election was stolen from President Trump and I came out to support the truth,” Patrick Phan told Montgomery News. “The truth speaks louder than ever when you see the number of people that are here who support President Trump.”

Former vice president Biden decisively won Maryland’s electoral votes with 65.3% of state votes compared to 32.9% for President Trump. The March for Trump rally was organized by several pro-Trump organizations after Biden won 306 electoral votes compared to Trump’s 232.

“If Joe Biden won, it means a lot of dead people voted for him and it's going to be a graveyard at the White House,” Patrick Phan said.

Phan was referring to allegations by Republicans and Trump campaign officials that illegal votes contributed to Biden’s victory. 

In Wisconsin, for example, Trump reportedly wired $3 million to election officials last week, requesting a recount of votes cast in Milwaukee and Dane counties, which are Democratic enclaves. According to media reports, Trump's campaign is alleging some absentee ballots were illegally cast and the recount is expected to be completed by Dec. 1.

“We've seen what Joe Biden has done to the country so far as a senator and vice president,” Don Phan told Montgomery News. “We know if he's the president, it is going to be a disaster.”

While Georgia’s hand recount resulted in Biden’s victory being certified in that state, the Trump campaign is requesting another recount that includes signature matching. As previously reported on Nov. 22, state laws in Georgia allow for a recount after certification when a presidential victory is within .5% of votes. Biden's 12,000 vote win was within a .3% margin.

In Pennsylvania, CBS News reports that counties were ordered on Nov. 6 by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to set apart late-arriving ballots and count them separately after Republicans filed an emergency request in Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar, which is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Alito's ruling simply reaffirmed a Pennsylvania ruling that had been adhered to by state election officials.

Another Pennsylvania lawsuit in federal court requesting a delay in certification was dismissed by U.S. District Justice William Brann. President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said the decision is good news in that it has put the case on an expedited path to the U.S. Supreme Court. An appeal of Brann’s decision was filed over the weekend.

"We will be seeking an expedited appeal to the Third Circuit," Giuliani said in a statement online. "There is so much evidence that in Pennsylvania, Democrats eliminated our opportunity to present 50 witnesses and other evidence that election officials blatantly ignored Pennsylvania’s law denying independent review. This resulted in 682,777 ballots being cast illegally, wittingly or unwittingly. This is just an extension of the Big Tech, Big Media, Corrupt Democrat censorship of damning facts the American public needs to know."

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told journalists at a press briefing on Nov. 20, “There's ongoing litigation. There are 74 million Americans that voted for this president. That's more votes than any president has gotten in history. It's really extraordinary and there are very real claims out there that the campaign is pursuing, 234 pages of affidavits publicly available in Wayne County alone. Two individuals on the canvassing board there have declined to certify. These are real claims. These individuals deserve to be heard. Mass mail out voting was a system that had never been tried in American history. It's one we have identified as being particularly prone to fraud and those claims deserve to be pursued.”

McEnany was referring to Monica Palmer and William Hartmann in Wayne, Michigan who voted against certifying state election results due to poll books and absentee ballots being allegedly unbalanced, according to USA Today.

The Trump campaign announced yesterday that it had cut ties with attorney Sidney Powell for disseminating baseless conspiracy theories regarding election fraud. 

The deadline for presidential electors from every state to cast their votes is on Dec. 14, two days after the follow-up March for Trump Rally in D.C. on Dec. 12.