As Pennsylvania flipped to blue, and Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump continued growing Friday morning, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor made the rounds on morning TV.
By 10 a.m., the Associated Press had not yet called the Keystone State.
Trump’s campaign has filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, laying the legal groundwork to contest ballots in the battleground states. The president has tweeted he plans to sue for alleged voter fraud and state election fraud.
On NBC, John Fetterman was asked about Trump’s legal challenges.
“The president can sue a ham sandwich. He can send a thousand lawyers to Pennsylvania, but it’s not going to change...the fact of the matter is that every one of these ballots in play that’s going to be counted today, for the rest of the day, has been lawfully received, and going to be counted, and they’re all going to skew in Joe Biden’s favor," Fetterman said.
The ballots being counted now were received on or before Election Day and would not be subject to any lawsuits, he continued.
Per a Supreme Court ruling, Pennsylvania can continue counting mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day that are received by today. Pennsylvania officials have told counties to segregate ballots received after Election Day, in case future court rulings affect if they can be included in the 2020 tallies.
Earlier Friday, Fetterman on ABC said the president’s margin was between 16,000 to 18,000 votes, with 150,000 to 160,000 ballots yet to be counted.
“I would expect the president’s margin to evaporate shortly,” he said.
A little before 9 a.m., Biden took the lead over Trump in Pennsylvania as votes from Philadelphia were added. By 10 a.m., Biden led Trump by 6,737 votes in Pennsylvania and Biden was at 49.4% and Trump at 49.3%.
President Trump, who was quiet on Twitter for most of the morning after tweeting the social media platform was “out of control,” tweeted this:
Fetterman and his wife are both active on Twitter. ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos asked about Twitter adding warning labels to Trump’s tweets “because they’re so misleading.”
“Why are we paying attention to anything with a warning label?” Fetterman asked. “We don’t listen to trolls on the internet.”
In a nod to Philly, Fetterman changed his Twitter handle to Jawn Fetterman and, for Friday only, tweeted that “Wawa > Sheetz.”
Gisele Fetterman showed what the household looked like as the lieutenant governor made his TV appearances:
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