GOP Rep. Claims Colleagues Objected to Election Results for Fear Their Families Would Be Harmed

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence convene a joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 election results on Capitol Hill, January 6, 2021. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via Reuters)

Representative Peter Meijer (R., Mich.), the freshman congressman succeeding libertarian Justin Amash, has claimed that at least one House colleague objected to certifying the Electoral College results out of fear for their family’s safety.

The certification process was interrupted after President Trump incited a mob of his supporters to march to the Capitol on Wednesday. The mob overwhelmed police and breached the building, forcing lawmakers to evacuate and injuring dozens of officers in the riots. One officer was killed and one rioter was shot and killed by police.

“After the Capitol was cleared of insurrectionists, with windows shattered and the smell of tear gas lingering, the consequences of his dangerous lies became clear,” Meijer wrote in an op-ed on Saturday for The Detroit Free Press.

“As we moved to accept Arizona’s electors, a fellow freshman lingered near a voting terminal, voting card in hand,” Meijer continued. “My colleague told me that efforts to overturn the election were wrong, and that voting to certify was a constitutional duty. But my colleague feared for family members, and the danger the vote would put them in. Profoundly shaken, my colleague voted to overturn.”

Meijer made similar comments in an interview with Reason on Friday.

“One of the saddest things is I had colleagues who, when it came time to recognize reality and vote to certify Arizona and Pennsylvania in the Electoral College, they knew in their heart of hearts that they should’ve voted to certify, but some had legitimate concerns about the safety of their families,” Meijer said at the time. “They felt that that vote would put their families in danger.”

The riots at the Capitol led several Republicans, including Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, to drop their objections to the certification of Electoral College results. However, several GOP senators and dozens of House Republicans supported objections to the results from Arizona and Pennsylvania.

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Zachary Evans is a news writer for National Review Online. He is a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces and a trained violist.

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1 Comment

  1. I do not give any value to any news organizations whether they are Republican or Democrat biased. Common sense tells me, the 4 years of investigations and attempts to impeach Trump based on Lies paid for by Clinton, is enough to convince me that the corrupt Politicians in our government is afraid that Trump was going to destroy/unmask their little play house of screwing the American public while enriching themselves and families.
    All the Democrats had to do is agree with the Trump supporters and conduct an impartial audit of 2020 election focusing on 5-6 swing states. If there was no fraud, Trump would have been FINISHED forever! So, since there was no audit and the Democrats sure did not want an audit, then rest assured, the fraud was there and THAT requires an IMPEACHMENT TRIAL of the entire hierarchy of the Democrat Congressmen and Senators.

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