Jamaican Republicans back vote lawsuit assault

Jamaican expatriates who support the Republican Party have backed United States President Donald Trump’s decision to dig in his heels after a preliminary count showed him losing the November 3 elections.

“I feel that we the people who voted for the president should continue to support him,” said Sonia McGrath, a Jamaican nurse living in Texas.

McGrath feels that the news media have misinterpreted the outcome of the results.

“The Republican Party has to stand by the president and support him in every way. He has filed a number of lawsuits, and we have to follow the process as it goes through the courts,” she said.

McGrath said that given the number of people who voted for Trump, the outcome should have been different.

“I don’t think there is any completed view right now until all the lawsuits are complete,” she said.

Former Vice President Joe Biden gave his victory speech on Saturday night on the basis of securing more than the 270 Electoral College votes needed to make him the 46th president.

Biden has so far received more than 76 million votes of the more than 150 million cast. Trump scored more than 71 million votes.

FULL TRANSPARENCY

Scherie Murray, executive director of Unite The Fight PAC, said that the country needed full transparency in the counting process.

“The president has my support, and that won’t change,” she said.

Murray, who threw her hat in the ring for the Republican primary to win the party’s support to challenge Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in this year’s election but later withdrew from that race, said that time would reveal the true winner of the November 3 contest.

She believes that the country is in for a long haul before the mid-December final-count declaration.

“We have to look at the entire process and what transpired. We need to ensure transparency. President Trump has filed a number of lawsuits that will delay the process, so we are hoping for the results to be transparent,” she said.

“Each county has a timeline to certify the results, and then each state also has a timeline to certify the state results, and so I believe that nothing is settled as yet,” said Murray.

“I do see a path for President Trump (to win the election),” said Murray.

Ainsworth Powell, a Republican in Pennsylvania, took a harder line, saying that he believed that the election was a farce.

“You can’t have a candidate leading by thousands of votes and have those margins wiped out and he ends up losing by thousands of votes” said Powell, a nurse and former member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

Powell believes that there was rampant corruption in the election process - a view that converges with Trump’s but which has not been supported by any evidence.

Powell said that it was a shame that a country that has been involved in international observer missions should find its own democracy in question.