SE North Carolina News

The prospects of a Joe Biden presidency is so deeply disturbing to Ryan Phillips that he traveled from North Carolina to Washington, D.C. with his two children to attend the March for Trump rally Nov. 14. 

“What's at stake is ever having even a semblance of democracy or a fair vote ever again,” Phillips told the SE North Carolina News.

The Phillips family joined thousands of other conservatives last Saturday in a march that started at Freedom Plaza and ended at the U.S. Supreme Court across from the Capitol. Trump briefly rode by the crowd in a motorcade.

“The turnout is pretty incredible,” Phillips said in an interview. “It's massive. There’s a lot of support for the president here that we don’t see reported in the mainstream media, and people have questions, quite obviously, about the election.” 

In the state of North Carolina, the Associated Press reported that President Trump won 50.1% of the vote compared to Biden winning 48.7%. The March for Trump rally was organized in response to the Associated Press calling Democratic challenger Biden the president-elect. Biden has garnered 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. 

“The left is super silly and I want to make fun of it more than anything because I think humor can communicate a lot,” Phillips said about a poster he held, which depicted Biden dressed similarly to Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong.

Bipartisan election officials across the country have reported no significant voter fraud, according to the New York Times. However, CBS News reports that Pennsylvania counties were ordered Nov. 6 by Justice Samuel Alito to segregate 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. 

Trump also reportedly wired $3 million to Wisconsin election officials Tuesday, 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.

Georgia’s recount reaffirmed Biden’s victory in that state.

Although Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani presented no evidence of fraud during a news conference Thursday, he alleged that fraud is the "logical conclusion" as a result of incidents he alleges took place in various states.

“What emerges there is not a singular voter fraud in one state," he told journalists. "This pattern repeats itself in a number of states...almost exactly the same pattern which to any experienced investigator or prosecutor would suggest there was a plan from a centralized place to execute these various acts of voter fraud specifically focused on big cities controlled by Democrats and that have a long history of corruption.”

According to Forbes, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said Giuliani needed to "present that information to a court of law."