Youngstown Times

When Carl Ligore arrived at the March for Trump rally in D.C. last weekend, he was in awe at the number of people who were in attendance.

“The news media tried to downplay it, but you can't downplay this,” Ligore told the Youngstown Times. “We've been standing here half an hour and it’s just now starting to thin out a little bit, but people are still coming.”

Ligore is among thousands of conservatives who marched from Freedom Plaza to the U.S. Supreme Court building across from the Capitol to challenge the results of Election Day in support of President Trump.

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The Associated Press reported incumbent President Donald Trump won the state of Ohio with 53.4% of votes compared to 45.2% for challenger Joe Biden. However, virtually every media outlet named Biden the president-elect because he won a projected 306 electoral votes compared to President Trump’s 232.

“I was going to come by myself but I didn't want to because of the way they were playing it on social media that people would beat us up and there's going to be all kinds of trouble,” Ligore said in an interview.

The Youngstown resident ended up carpooling with two strangers who live nearby in Ohio that he met on the Million MAGA March Facebook page in order to secure a ride. Now, the threesome are patriot friends.

“They didn’t know me from Adam but we came down here and here we are,” he said at the rally.

When Trump drove by his supporters in a motorcade during Saturday's rally, the crowd erupted in cheers.

The March for Trump rally was part of a grassroots effort planned by pro-Trump groups around the country to show a united front, demand transparency in elections, and protect election integrity. The Boston Herald reported after the rally that 24 people were arrested as a result of clashes with Biden supporters.

The election has lead to multiple lawsuits, including one in Pennsylvania over ballot observers that was rejected by the state's Supreme Court today, according to NBC News.

Another lawsuit, which the Philadelphia Inquirer reports is still pending in Pennsylvania court, is trying to block the certification of results that include absentee and mail-in ballots, which were allegedly "improperly permitted to be cured." 

President Trump tweeted on Nov. 15 that he would be filing a big lawsuit soon: “Many of the court cases being filed all over the Country are not ours, but rather those of people that have seen horrible abuses. Our big cases showing the unconstitutionality of the 2020 Election, & the outrage of things that were done to change the outcome, will soon be filed!”

Voter groups, represented by election lawyer James Bopp Jr., voluntarily dismissed without prejudice four lawsuits that had been filed in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia, as previously reported by CBS News.