By Cathy Burke
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Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, on Friday called out alleged fraud in the Pennsylvania vote count \u2014 and blasted the Democrat mayor of Philadelphia for trying to “hijack the country.”<\/p>\n
In a blistering attack during a\u00a0Newsmax TV<\/a>\u00a0interview for “The Chris Salcedo Show<\/a>,” Gohmert accused Philly Mayor Jim Kenney of “acting illegally” as the vote count Friday gave an edge to Democrat\u00a0nominee Joe Biden.<\/p>\n “As long as he’s . . . acting illegally . . . then he is opening himself to actions,” Gohmert said of Kenney. “This is outrageous what he’s done. He cannot hijack the country . . . he was covering up [vote counters’] activity and not allowing Republican poll watchers do their job.”<\/p>\n “He’s hiding something,” Gohmert added about the mayor, though he offered no elaboration. “People are outraged here . . . we want the fight to continue.” He said the country now is “going Marxist” and the vote counting is “right out of the Marxist playbook.”<\/p>\n “They want to take our country in that direction,” he said of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n Gohmert’s accusations mirrored earlier remarks during an interview\u00a0posted<\/a>\u00a0by video\u00a0news network Cheddar<\/a>\u00a0correspondent J.D. Durkin.<\/p>\n “You can have different kinds of evidence,” Gohmert said. “We knew that mail-in ballots would be a prescription for fraud, easy for fraud, and that’s why they haven’t been used in such a wide-scale basis before.”<\/p>\n Pressed if he had seen that evidence himself, he replied: “I’m hearing about the evidence from people that have,” adding there has been fraud in previous elections. “I know it’s gotten worse this time.”<\/p>\n