ALABAMA – Rudy Giuliani, acting as President Trump’s attorney, reportedly left a voicemail meant to be sent to Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville in an attempt to get the senator to stall Congress from certifying the Electoral College results but instead left the message on another senator’s phone, according to a report published Wednesday night.
Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who represented the president in his failed legal challenges to the election results in several states Trump lost, left a voicemail meant for Tuberville around 6 p.m., urging the senator to object to the Electoral College results in 10 states, the Dispatch reported. Giuliani advised Tuberville to act, according to the publication, to bide time for Giuliani to come up with proof of election fraud.
“So if you could object to every state and, along with a congressman, get a hearing for every state, I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote, particularly after what McConnell did today,” Giuliani said in the voicemail obtained by the Dispatch.
Except Giuliani did not dial Tuberville, as he had thought. The message was left with another senator, who passed along the voicemail to the Dispatch.
And it appears that Tuberville did not get the message. As the joint session of Congress resumed Wednesday night, no senators objected to several states that Trump wanted to contest. Subsequently, the objections failed and the electoral votes were awarded to President-elect Joe Biden.
