As President Donald Trump continued to question the integrity of Pennsylvania’s election while repeating unverified claims of voter fraud, state Republicans made their own moves, Spotlight PA and Votebeat report.

A group of House and Senate lawmakers called for the creation of an investigatory committee with subpoena power to conduct an immediate audit, saying they had fielded widespread complaints about the fairness of the Nov. 3 presidential election from their constituents.

The GOP made a similar move before the election, then scrapped it.

House Speaker Bryan Cutler, meanwhile, continued to press Gov. Tom Wolf for an audit that would examine legislative changes made to the election code in 2019 — including the creation of no-excuse mail voting — and the impact of recent state Supreme Court decisions on the process.

THE CONTEXT: It's important to know this: Pennsylvania already has safeguards in place to ensure the accuracy of election results.

In addition to routine reviews in each county required by law, the state has started to pilot “risk-limiting” audits, a process that verifies whether a sample of paper ballots matches results captured electronically by voting machines.

This is also key: The very same election and ballots Republicans are questioning as part of the presidential race handed the party a decisive victory in other contests across Pennsylvania.

When asked about that discrepancy, Cutler said he was “not concerned with, necessarily, who won or who lost."

"What I’m concerned with is that people no longer have faith in the process."

"This is not something that we want to do. This is not something we take lightly."

— Maria Plano, an ICU nurse, on a looming strike among nurses at four Philadelphia hospitals amid a major surge in the coronavirus pandemic