Congressman Largely Silent On Election Outcome

Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick hasn’t always been one to hold his thoughts back, but recently he’s gone mostly silent on one topic.

Since the general election on November 3 and the results in the days and weeks after, the Republican congressman has been unusually quiet.

Over the past month, LevittownNow.com has reached out to Fitzpatrick directly, his office, and his campaign looking for his comments on the election that saw him win reelection with a strong lead and Democrat Joe Biden earn more votes than President Donald Trump.

The election was one of the most divisive in recent history and has showcased a rift in the nation. Trump and his allies have claimed the president won, but the widespread fraud they claim and their legal challenges have almost entirely fallen apart under the scrutiny.

In the weeks since the election, Trump, who is expected to be a major political powerbroker for the GOP after he leaves office, has called out Republicans who haven’t gone along with his claims about the election and called for states to overturn Biden’s win.

The congressman, who brands himself as an independent voice and talks about calming the heated rhetoric, is often generous with his time during interviews with the press. On the topic of the election, he only appears to have provided comment in a Bucks County Courier Times article published on November 11.

Following a Veterans Day event, the congressman told the newspaper there was a president-elect and that Trump’s legal challenges should “run its way through the courts and we’ll get a resolution in an open and transparent manner.”

“I have thus far seen no direct evidence of pervasive irregularities that would lead me to think the determination will be any different. Let this make its proper way through the courts and either clear evidence will be presented or not. If not, this will be dismissed. If there is, then we should definitely want to know that,” he said.

Since, the congressman, a former FBI special agent and an attorney, appears to have been silent on the issue as other Republicans and Democrats have spoken out.

The Washington Post noted that Fitzpatrick’s office also did not respond to their request for comment on the election recently.

While he has been silent on the election, Fitzpatrick and his staff have continued to work. The lawmaker has been at numerous public events and Will Kiley, Fitzpatrick press secretary, has sent out statements on the passage of opioid task force bills, the Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal Act, local businesses that hire veterans, a flaw in the financial aid system, and the Big Cat Public Safety Act.

It is unclear why the congressman has been silent on the election.

In the hours before the general election, Fitzpatrick received a robocall phone endorsement from Trump through the Bucks County Republican Committee, a first for the congressman who has often worked to showcase himself as a Republican separate from the president and one that can appeal to moderates from both parties.

Trump, in a recording of the call obtained by this news organization, said Fitzpatrick was “respected by everybody” and “everybody is Washington sits up when Brian walked in and he’s represented you so well.”

Rumors of a Trump endorsement of Fitzpatrick, which did not publicly happen in 2016 or 2018, swirled in Republicans circles leading up to the 2020 election.

Fitzpatrick has not been visible at Trump rallies within the First Congressional District over the past few years. He did not appear at the president’s campaign event in Upper Makefield days before the election, leading some in the audience to ask reporters if Fitzpatrick was coming to meet with the unofficial head of his party.

The congressman wrote in Mike Pence in 2016 election instead of voting for Trump, but this year he told WBCB-AM that he decided to vote for the president.

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