Challenge the Electoral College results. And senator josh hawley joining over 140 house lawmakers demanding what would be a 10day emergency election audit from states with serious voting irregularities. This is an importantnt and critical and necessary step in an election that is wrought with serious issues. We have major institutional failures. T they are right. In terms of senator crews of th congressmen. All explain more on that in a moment. You wont hear this from the bo media. There is plenty of precedent for this challenge. S democrats have contested results 4 times. 1969 to 2001 and 2004 and 2017. That would be Donald Trumps election. On 2 occasions the challenges had support from at least one senate democrat. 2005, after the 2004 election senator Barbara Boxer a senator from california contested the results in the name of Voter Suppression even though john kerry conceded that race. In 2001 the New York Times reported that a dozen members of the american black caucus tried to bl
Way, too. Back in washington, different scene. President Trump Supporters holding a rally at the moment as Congress Gets set to count electoral votes tomorrow. Some republicans say they plan to challenge the results that will be an interesting time. A packed hour ahead. Matt finn on the vote counting in atlanta. Alicia acuna is live in atlanta and rich edson at the protest in washington d. C. Stand by, yall. Want to go over to the big board. Well show you a little bit on the board over here about the contest in georgia. Weve been waiting for these now for 60 days going back to november 3. Kelly loeffler is a republican. Shes 50 years old. She was appointed to her position a year ago this january trying to win the seat back. Fun facts she coowns the atlanta dream team. Shes in the ring up against Raphael Warnock, a pastor. Hes 51 years old from savannah, georgia. He would be georgias first black u. S. Senator if he is able to beat Kelly Loeffler. That is in that corner. The other corner
This comes as senator ted cruz is leading an effort to challenge the Electoral College results. And senator josh hawley joining over 140 house lawmakers demanding what would be a 10day emergency election audit from states with serious voteings irregularities. This is an important and critical and necessary step in an election that wrought with serious issues. We have major institutional failur failures. They are right. There is plenty of precedent for this challenge. Democrats have contested results 4 times. 1969 to 2001 and 2004 and 2017. That would be Donald Trumps election. On 2 occasions the challenges had support from at least one senate democrat. 2005, after the 2004 election, senator Barbara Boxer a senator from california contested the results in the name of Voter Suppression even though john kerry conceded that race. In 2001 the New York Times reported that a dozen members of the american black caucus tried to block the counting of floridas 25 electoral votes protesting black
This is for the secretary and the chief, youve all talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. Im hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year and do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp . I would say its very early to be speculating about where we will land by 2023 so i dont think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. We have started this prep course , the early results of that look promising. And depending on how that plays out in the next month or two i think we will look at expanding that to some additional training sites which would obviously help us. Another thing weve done is weve partnered with our recruiting brigades so that frankly we are increasing the profile at events across the United States. We will also be increasing the marketing that we spend and we have very datadriven analysis t
We are pressed for time so to the extent youre able to please limit it to one follow up and be respected over those in the room. Please lead off with your name. Im not getting give opening remarks. Im guessing you all heard all you want and want to get the questions. Open it up to you. We are ready to go. Good morning. This is for the secretary and the chief, youve all talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. Im hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year and do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp . I would say its very early to be speculating about where we will land by 2023 so i dont think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. We have started this prep course , the early results of that look promising. And depending on how that plays out in the next month or two i think we will look at expan