McKee asks for cancellation of fundraiser hosted by former Trump RI co-chair Published Sun May 09 2021 18:15:21 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by Ian Donnis
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee has asked for the cancellation of a fundraiser after The Public’s Radio reported that it was being hosted by the co-chair of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign in Rhode Island.
“Once I became aware on Friday afternoon of the details of a fundraising event set for next Wednesday, I asked that the event be cancelled,” McKee said Sunday, in a statement released through his campaign organization.
“I do not want to be associated with Donald Trump in any way, shape, or form,” McKee continued. “I do not like Trump…he is dishonest, divisive, and his “Big Lie” is a threat to our democracy. There is no place for a Trump spokesperson to co-host any event I am involved in.”
May 9, 2021 3:57 pm
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Democratic Gov. Dan McKee said Sunday he has canceled a fundraising event that was being organized on his behalf by a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump.
McKee had been scheduled to attend a May 12 event co-hosted by Gerald Zarrella, a Republican who was co-chair of Trump’s Rhode Island re-election campaign. But when the Democrat learned who was behind the fundraiser, he said he asked to call it off.
“I do not want to be associated with Donald Trump in any way, shape, or form. I do not like Trump,” McKee said in a statement released Sunday. “He is dishonest, divisive, and his ‘Big Lie’ is a threat to our democracy.”
In one of the last chapters of a surreal election year, Rhode Island s 2020 Electoral College will meet on Monday to cast the state s four presidential votes for Democrat Joe Biden.
The largely ceremonial event held every four years at the State House will have less pomp this year due to COVID-19.
To maintain social distancing, only participants in the ceremony, including Gov. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea and the four electors will be allowed inside the House chamber for the event.
The media, guests of the electors and assorted dignitaries who usually attend the ceremony will have to watch on television, as will the fife-and-drum ensemble.
And even then, Morgan wouldn t say who she thought won the election. Of course, there was election fraud, aided by politicians who exponentially increased the number of mail in ballots without adequate preparation, Morgan wrote The Journal in an email. Sadly, we can only speculate on how much voter fraud occurred, because a wall of secrecy surrounds ballots and the security envelopes that carried them. The lack of transparency is appalling and every voter, regardless of party, should be disgusted.
Morgan did not identify any specific instances of voter fraud and, nationally, election officials and the Department of Justice have not found large-scale issues with the ballot.