A top Pennsylvania Republican reboots 'audit' of 2020 vote ...

Last week, Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman removed fellow GOP Sen. Doug Mastriano, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, from leading the review, which began last month.Corman pledged Monday to start the investigation this week under the leadership of GOP Sen. Cris Dush, who traveled with Mastriano in June to visit the site of the so-called forensic audit of about 2 million ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona.Corman announced Dush's appointment Friday, saying in a statement that Mastriano "retreated" from conducting the inquiry and "was only ever interested in politics and showmanship and not actually getting things done."The kerfuffle has Corman and Dush taking heat from election deniers, who, with Arizona's review coming to a conclusion, could soon zero in on Pennsylvania as they push for similar reviews across the country — even though the results and Biden's victory have been affirmed again and again and courts have overwhelmingly rejected legal efforts to overturn them. We want people in Pennsylvania to believe in what this investigation" reveals.Corman also said that he spoke to Trump and that he thinks the former president is "comfortable where we're heading." In June, Trump said that if no audit takes place, "there is no way" Corman and other state GOP leaders "will ever get re-elected!"Pennsylvania conducted two-post election audits confirming the accuracy of last fall's count, and the results were certified.Voter fraud in U.S. elections is exceedingly rare.