Canton Reporter

Jamie and Brian Eckstein drove 5 hours to Washington, D.C. from Lewisville to attend the March for Trump last weekend.

“We're just draining the swamp,” Jamie Eckstein told the Canton Reporter. “We need our government back. People need to be able to believe in the system and that it works and that it's going to be justified. We need to be here today for all those things.”

The Ecksteins joined thousands who marched from Freedom Plaza to the U.S. Supreme Court building across from the Capitol to protest the results of Election Day in support of President Trump.

“I came with just my husband and I, but there were buses that came from Ohio and from every state for the people who decided to come out for this,” Eckstein said in an interview at the rally.

President Trump made a brief appearance at the rally, driving through in a motorcade. Eckstein held up a poster that read, "We support you Mr. President."

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.

Biden’s position as president-elect will likely be finalized when presidential electors from every state cast their votes by the Dec. 14 deadline.

Until then, multiple organizations have filed lawsuits to stop states from certifying their election results and President Trump tweeted on Nov. 15 that he would be filing another 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.

The fact the voter group lawsuits were voluntarily dismissed without prejudice means the complaints can be refiled.

The rally was part of a grassroots effort planned by various pro-Trump groups around the country to show a united front, to demand transparency in elections, and to protect election integrity. Trump supporters traveled from as far away as California, South Dakota and Oregon to participate.