A growing number of Senate Republicans are acknowledging President-elect Joe Biden
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Top Senate Republicans have also publicly pushed back against talk of trying to object to the election results next month. McConnell didn’t address the issue during a press conference on Tuesday.
Blunt, the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, said Thune had explained to GOP senators "the futility" of objecting to any state's electoral votes next month.
Thune on Monday said the effort was “not going anywhere.”
If both a House member and senator object, the two chambers would have to meet separately, debate the issue and then have a majority in both chambers vote to uphold the objection to a state’s slate. A lawmaker has never been able to successfully throw out a state's results.