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What we know about the Senate GOP Gettysburg election 'hearing' with Giuliani

J.D. Prose, USA TODAY Network - PA State Capitol Bureau

President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is expected to attend a Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee "hearing today in Gettysburg on election issues and alleged irregularities, but Trump is not going to be there after all.

There were conflicting reports late Tuesday and Wednesday morning about whether Trump would also be attending the meeting, but a final decision seems to have been made at the last minute.

White House pool reporter Matthew Choi of Politico reported shortly after 11 a.m. that, "The traveling pool was getting ready to leave for Pennsylvania but was told at the last minute that their trip has been canceled."

Choi added that there are still no public events listed on Trump's schedule. 

Bloomberg News' Jennifer Jacobs reported that Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn has been diagnosed with the coronavirus just six days after attending a Giuliani press conference. 

Epshteyn, though, was not expected to travel to Gettysburg, she said.

Adams County resident Robert Steenstra was one of a few Biden supporters outside the Gettysburg Wyndham ahead of a Pa. state Senate committee "hearing."

What we know

  • State Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin County, who is not a member of the all-Republican committee, on Tuesday announced a “public hearing” featuring Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, who has unsuccessfully challenged election results showing Joe Biden won the presidency.
  • Members of the committee include state Sens. David Argall (chairman), Joe Scarnati, Camera Bartolotta, Pat Browne, John DiSanto, Scott Hutchinson, Scott Martin, Kristin Phillips-Hill, Mike Regan, Mario Scavello, Pat Stefano, Judy Ward and Gene Yaw.
  • The event will be held today at the Wyndham Gettysburg hotel at 12:30 p.m.
  • Mastriano’s office said the event will be livestreamed at policy.pasenategop.com.
  • The Trump campaign later on Tuesday announced that legislatures in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan – all states where Trump has disputed, without evidence of wrongdoing, election results – would be holding hearings in the next few days.
  • Late Tuesday night, CNN reported that Trump would accompany Giuliani to Gettysburg. The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman confirmed that report, adding that, “Some aides had tried talking him out of this.”