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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) directly criticized President Trump on Thursday night for efforts by the president and his allies to reverse the results of the presidential election.<\/p>\n

Romney, in a statement that marks the strongest pushback by a Senate Republican, said the president had “failed to make even a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy” in a myriad of challenges the president’s legal team launched in several battleground states where he trailed President-elect Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

“The president has now resorted to overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election. It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American president,” Romney said in a statement posted to Twitter.<\/p>\n

Romney’s statement comes after Trump invited some of Michigan’s top Republicans to the White House in a sign he may be seeking a way around the election results where Biden is projected to get 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.<\/p>\n

Two other GOP senators – Sens. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) – have pushed back against comments made during Giuliani’s press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Sasse, a potential 2024 contender,\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0that the “wild press conferences erode public trust,” adding that “we are a nation of laws, not tweets.”<\/p>\n

Ernst, meanwhile, rebuked claims made by Sidney Powell, a lawyer associated with the campaign, who said that down-ballot candidates could have “paid to have the system rigged to work for them,” with the GOP senator\u00a0calling the statement<\/a>\u00a0“offensive” and “absolutely outrageous.”<\/p>\n

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