Republican Predicts Over 100 GOP Lawmakers Will Challenge Electoral College Results
On 12/30/20 at 9:54 PM EST
Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger said Wednesday he believes more than 100 members of the GOP could step forward to challenge the Congressional certification of electoral votes.
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to be certified as the winner of the 2020 presidential election on January 6. Citing baseless claims of voter fraud, President Donald Trump has refused to concede the election to Biden and encouraged Republican lawmakers to challenge the results of the Electoral College. All 50 states have already certified their election results. On Wednesday s episode of
The Bulwark Podcast, Kinzinger said a large number of Republicans could back Trump s attempt to retain the presidency by objecting to the electoral votes.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during an Oct. 12 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool, File)
WASHINGTON (CN) Against the warning from top Republicans that such a challenge would go down “like a shot dog,” Senator Josh Hawley on Wednesday mounted the body’s first effort to unwind the Electoral College certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s November win.
A Missouri Republican, Hawley said he could not certify the results while there are concerns that Facebook and Twitter interfered in the 2020 election to support Biden. Hawley did not provide any evidence of such concerns, which he raised this morning along with questions about how Pennsylvania and others “failed to follow their own state election laws.”
This combination of pictures created on October 22 shows US President Donald Trump (L) and former US Vice President Joe Biden during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville. AFP/File
Conservative lawmakers in both chambers of the US Congress launched yet another bid on Wednesday to prevent US President-elect Joe Biden from taking oath on Jan 20.
Supporters of the outgoing US President Donald Trump needed a senator and a member of the House of Representatives to challenge the election results, and on Wednesday a Republican senator Josh Hawley of Missouri offered to back the move.
A group of conservative lawmakers in the House have already pledged to back Trump’s move to overturn the results of the presidential election.
He said “ambitious politicians” are trying to tap into Mr. Trump’s base without doing real, long-term damage.
“But they’re wrong and this issue is bigger than anyone’s personal ambitions,” Mr. Sasse said. “Adults don’t point a loaded gun at the heart of legitimate self-government.”
Mr. Sasse, who was first elected in 2014 and reelected this year, also revealed that he wrote in Vice President Mike Pence on his presidential ballot in 2016 and 2020.
Sen. Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican, said Wednesday he planned to object when the results are announced in Congress on Jan. 6.
“I cannot vote to certify the electoral college results on January 6 without raising the fact that some states, particularly Pennsylvania, failed to follow their own state election laws,” Mr. Hawley said.
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