Empire State Today

There were purported red flags around the presidential election that are so concerning to NBC’s "The Biggest Loser" trainer Cara Castronuova that she wants an evaluation of the voting, which resulted in Democratic nominee Joe Biden becoming president-elect Nov. 7.

“We are opposed to the media announcing an election winner,” Castronuova told Empire State Today. “That's not their job and we're not accepting the results of this election until further investigation into the allegations of election and voter fraud.”

The media announced Donald Trump as the winner of the 2016 presidential election in the early hours of Nov. 9, 2016, the morning after Election Day.

Castronuova, founder of Liberate New York, has organized a group of New Yorkers to attend the Noon time ‘March for Trump’ rally Saturday in Washington, D.C., at Freedom Plaza.

“This is a chance to show that we are serious, we're united and that we want election transparency,” Castronuova said in an interview. “Authorities are able to change election laws and rules right before an election. That just doesn't sit well with anybody in America.”

According to NBC News, Biden garnered 56% of votes statewide in New York but Castronuova, who is also a champion boxer, remains undeterred about re-electing President Trump.

“We hope to give the American people a sense of hope that we're not giving up on Donald Trump and to let him know that we're not giving up on him,” Castronuova said. “The people are still behind him. We want to see him fight this. We don't want him to concede because it's not just about Donald Trump. It's also about the integrity of future elections.” 

Castronuova founded Liberate New York in March to protest coronavirus shutdowns implemented by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

“Liberate New York was fighting the lockdown and shutdown in New York and all of the infringements we felt of our constitutional rights, which we still feel are being infringed upon,” she said. “We attended rallies in Albany where we stood outside the governor’s mansion.”

Cuomo has announced a new round of COVID-19 restrictions, limiting residential gatherings to 10 people and requiring bars and restaurants throughout the state to close from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. daily starting Friday at 10 p.m., according to a statement online.

"If you look at where the cases are coming from, if you do the contact tracing, you'll see they're coming from three main areas: establishments where alcohol is served, gyms, and indoor gatherings at private homes," Cuomo said in a news release. "The reason we have been successful in reducing the spread in New York is we have been a step ahead of COVID. You know where it's going; stop it before it gets there. And you know where it's going by following the science. This is the calibration that we've talked about: increase economic activity, watch the positivity rate - if the positivity rate starts to go up, back off on the economic activity. It was never binary, the economic activity or public health, it was always both."