Trump supporters still fighting

COEUR d’ALENE — As a caravan of about 50 vehicles rolled out of the old Shopko parking lot Wednesday afternoon, Cindy Kuhn stopped.

She said she was there because she has fought for her country and feels strongly she must oppose what she believes is wrong.

“I think it’s very important we actually stand up for our rights. That’s the biggest reason for being out here,” Kuhn said.

“It’s time for us, the American people, to stand up to these people who think they can control our lives. Because they cannot and we will not let them.”

Kuhn joined what was billed as “an election integrity rally.”

“Our country is being attacked from within through election fraud. The evidence is unmistakable. Only 'LEGAL' Votes should be counted,” read an email promoting the rally. “We must now stand up for our President and show the corrupt left we will not allow them to succeed with this.”

It called on people to join the Kootenai County Republican Women “in a stand of solidarity to resist this subversion from within.”

The hourlong "Support Our President" caravan rolled through Coeur d’Alene neighborhoods and downtown, with horns honking, flags waving, Trump banners flying and people waving.

One sign read “Trump won in a landslide.” Another read, ”Land of the free.”

Before the caravan headed out, a man selling Trump signs and flags in the parking lot was doing brisk business.

The rally annoyed one woman, who called The Press to say they were making noise and slowing traffic. She urged The Press not to cover it, as it would only encourage them to continue to protest the president’s defeat in the presidential election to Democrat nominee Joe Biden.

“Get over it,” she said.

A man named Nick, with his wife Cherri in the passenger seat, was driving a van that had “God Bless America” written in capital letters on a window.

“We support a biblical, Constitutional America, and we support truth and Donald Trump,” he said.

Linda Mitchell joined the caravan on a cold, cloudy day because she said Trump was “robbed” in the election.

“It was filled with corruption. Filled with corruption. I’ve never seen anything like it,” she said.

The former Seattle resident said she saw the same thing happen in 2004 to Republican Dino Rossi when he was defeated in the Washington state governor’s race by Christine Gregoire by the narrowest of margins. Each received about 1.373 million votes.

A machine recount had Rossi leading by 42 votes. A manual recount put the race eight votes in Gregoire’s favor.

“But during that recount, more votes that had been missed had surfaced—especially in King County,” King 5 News reported.

“I saw them steal the election from Dino Rossi,” Mitchell said.

Ty and Amy McCamly adjusted a Trump banner on the back of their van as they prepared to join the caravan.

Ty McCamly said he believes there were “huge discrepancies’ in the vote count and it looked like there was outright voter fraud.

He said they didn’t have a problem with Biden winning, but how he won.

“We want to make sure it was a free and fair election,” Ty McCamly said.

He said there are “huge ramifications for the country if half of the people feel like they’ve been shafted and their vote doesn’t matter. That’s a recipe for civil unrest and we just don’t want to see that in our country. America is the greatest country on Earth.”

Amy McCamly said she wanted to join the event because she wanted to be sure her two daughters are “living in a free country and they’re understanding the importance of that, and that our voices are heard and recognized.”