Trump allies fail to oust Wisconsin election officials who refused to back 'big lie'

State elections officials determined that Donald Trump supporters had not gathered enough signatures to initiate a recall election of Wisconsin's top elected Republican.

The former president's supporters launched the recall effort to punish Assembly Speaker Robin Vos for certifying president Joe Biden's narrow election win in the state in 2020, and he further infuriated them when he refused to back a plan to impeach top elections official Meagan Wolfe, reported the Associated Press.

Vos dismissed the effort's organizers as “whack jobs and morons,” but Trump himself continued his criticism of the Assembly speaker and Wolfe this week, even after it had already appeared the petition had failed to collect enough valid signatures.

“I’ve heard so much about Meagan Wolfe, and it’s like unanimous, she shouldn’t be there,” Trump said. “And Robin Vos, who’s a Republican, is allowing her to be there. I don’t understand it. I can’t imagine it.”

A memo issued Wednesday by the Wisconsin Elections Commission showed that a review had found too many of the signatures were invalid to trigger the recall, and the commission is expected to formally reject the recall petition Thursday, after a memo issued Wednesday.

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Wolfe is one of the nation's most respected elections officials and has served as president of the National Association of State Election Directors and chair of the bipartisan Electronic Registration Information Center.

Vos blocked efforts to impeach her led by five Republicans in the Assembly after Senate Republicans voted in September to fire her over objections from Democrats and the Legislature’s nonpartisan attorneys, who said they lacked the authority to vote at that time since she was a holdover from the previous administration and had not been reappointed.

A judge later ruled that Wolfe was lawfully holding the position.

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