Former Philadelphia election board member Al Schmidt, a Republican picked to be Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro's secretary of state, will be awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal on Friday for his actions to protect 2020 election results.
Schmidt, 51, will receive the Presidential Citizens Medal along with police officers
In one Twitter post, Trump said Schmidt “is being used big time by the Fake News Media to explain how honest things were with respect to the Election in Philadelphia. He refuses to look at the mountain of corruption & dishonesty,” reported theSchmidt also told “60 Minutes” that he and his family received death threats for not supporting Trump’s lies about election fraud. Biden won Pennsylvania by 80,555 votes.
Sam DeMarco, the chairman of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County and a county councilman, said he has known Schmidt for several years and the two frequently talked about election issues in 2020 as both were pressured to find non-existing fraud in their county elections.
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