The Republican Commissioner of the City of Philadelphia, who faced several threats after overseeing the ballot count in the 2020 presidential election, recently spoke out against a wave of efforts to censor Republican officials who broke with the party in the vote to convict ex President Trump
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In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday, Commissioner Al Schmidt called the Republican party.
“It’s weird to hear Republican organizations complain about canceling the culture, and yet they’re trying to censor Republican elected officials who have done nothing but tell the truth, “Schmidt said.” If they want to censor someone, I would suggest that they censor Republican elected officials who lie to voters. “
He went on to talk about the lies that have led to violence across the country.
“These lies have consequences, as we have seen across the country. As we have seen in Washington, DC, as I have seen away from home, there are consequences in these lies and I honestly don’t know what the solution is to fix all this,” he said. dir Schmidt.
Schmidt also said in November that he and members of his staff had received death threats while counting votes, adding that critics of his office had “gone into all sorts of madness” about the integrity of the election city and questioned the impartiality of the vote counters.
Several Republicans, including Pennsylvania Sen. Patrick Toomey, Sen. Richard Burr (RN.C.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), have clashed with the reaction and are calling for censorship after voting to convict Trump in his latest indictment.