Nearly a dozen Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), announced Saturday they will object to the Electoral College certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory when Congress meets in a joint-session on Jan. 6.
“Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and scope are disputed. By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes,” the Republicans explained in a statement.
The Republican lawmakers said Congress should establish an “Electoral Commission” to investigate alleged election fraud and conduct an “emergency audit” of the election results.
But until that happens, the Republicans, which include four Republican senators-elect, will object to the votes of electors from certain battleground states whose election results Republicans claim were tainted by election fraud.
In
a joint statement released by Cruz, the Republicans explained:
Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed. Accordingly, we intend to vote on Jan. 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not “regularly given” and “awfully certified” (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.
The Republicans joining Cruz include:
- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
- Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.)
- Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.)
- Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.)
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
- Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.)
- Sen.-elect Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)
- Sen.-elect Roger Marshall (R-Kan.)
- Sen.-elect Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
- Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
According to Fox News, the effort orchestrated by Cruz is separate from that being undertaken by Sen. Josh Hawley.
The Missouri Republican announced this week that he will object to the Electoral College vote certification next week on the grounds that Pennsylvania and other states did not follow their own election law.
What about the House?
Two House Republicans told CNN on Thursday that at least 140 House Republicans will object to certifying the Electoral College results.
Neither challenge is expected to change the ultimate outcome of the election.
If real Americans do not persue the illegalities of 2020 election, we will be Venezuela North.
There was no voter fraud, only a madman willing to do anything to stay in power. Trump lost, get over it.
You have your head implanted in your backside, and seem to be short of oxygen. And unable to see and hear the evidence. Or are you just stupid?
Oh, ok, so hiding ballots under a table and waiting until all the republican ballot watchers are gone, then pulling them out and counting them is not evidence of the intent to defraud the system ?
Or perhaps the video showing workers running stacks of ballots, the SAME stack of ballots, multiple time, that’s not fraud ?
Multiple IT professionals testifying AND showing in person, how the machines were rigged ?
That’s not fraud ?
How about the postal workers loaded truck (loaded with ballots), just up and disappearing ?
No, there are way too many instances of fraud, the problem is you, and many others, have what is called cognitive dissonance.
This being said, I really do not know who did or did not win, and it matters little, the root problem here is the validity of the voting process, it was obviously manipulated by foreign actors, there are lot’s of theories about who they are but it doesn’t matter.
IF we do not look into this now, and get it straight, then we will never have a truly fair election again, I think it is fair to say that, if left unchecked, our voice and our vote will mean absolutely nothing in the future.
There are already moves by certain democratic leaders to dismantle and destroy our constitution, we are at a crossroads here, there is no middle, either you are for the constitution, or you are against it.
You forgot the other biggee, there were more votes than there were registered voters…. dead give away… and dam, even my grand daddy voted, and he’s been dead since ’62….