Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett aims to rebuild trust in elections with new group

February 29, 2024 | Dan Snyder | CBS Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — We may be nearly three-and-a-half years removed from the contentious 2020 election, but its effects are still reverberating. A December Washington Post-University of Maryland poll found 36% of U.S. adults still do not believe Joe Biden’s election win was legitimate.

The same poll found 62% of Republicans say there is “solid evidence” that there was widespread voter fraud in 2020.

But don’t count former Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett among them.

“To my knowledge, nothing has been proved that there was major cheating,” -Tom Corbett

Corbett is going a step further in 2024, joining a new group called “Keep Our Republic.” The nonpartisan organization is working in three key battleground states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with the hope of restoring people’s faith in the election process.

Corbett says the group’s primary focus is educating local and state election leaders on the process. Specifically, they’re targeting the time from when polls close in November to the Presidential Inauguration in January, a time when we saw a lot of election questions four years ago. …