Donald Trump is again putting pressure on Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to overhaul Wisconsin’s system of elections, this time by elevating calls to impeach the nonpartisan leader of the state’s elections agency whom Trump continues to cast as a villain in his false narrative about the battleground state’s 2020 election.
The former president and frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary race on Monday shared with his 6.5 million social media followers a press release from Republican Rep. Janel Brandtjen criticizing Vos for not moving to impeach Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator Meagan Wolfe.
But Vos on Tuesday suggested the Assembly would not take up the effort.
“I think we need to move forward and talk about the issues that matter to most Wisconsinites and that is not, for most Wisconsinites, obsessing about Meagan Wolfe,” Vos told reporters.
Wolfe has served as a target for nearly three years to those in the Republican Party base who believe widespread election misconduct delivered an election loss to Trump in 2020, despite court rulings, nonpartisan audits, and recounts paid for by Trump, showing President Joe Biden was elected fairly.