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Cruz, 10 GOP Senators Opposing Voters Unless and to a 10 Day Emergency
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) led a group of senators and elected senators who issued a joint statement on Saturday stating that they intend to reject presidential candidates from battlefield states during the January 6 election certification, unless and until an emergency 10-day audit of election returns is completed.> BREAKDOWN: Ted Cruz takes it a step further and says on 1/6/21 he will demand: ‘Congress must immediately appoint an election commission with full investigation and fact-finding authority, to carry out a state of emergency ten days after the election returns in the disputed states … ”>> – David Begnaud (@ DavidBegnaud) 2 January 2021 A total of 11 senators signed the declarations and with Sen Josh Hawley (R-Mo) joined. .), which last week announced its plans to object. to vote against acceptance of Biden’s Electoral College> Burgess Everett (@burgessev) January 2, 2021 President Trump and his allies have since the November defeat expressed allegations of widespread voter fraud. There is no evidence to support the claims, and Trump’s legal team, as well as other Republican groups, have dismissed dozens of lawsuits by all courts, including the Supreme Court. Yet Trump now has members of the House as well as the Senate. willing to try to object to the certification of the Electoral College over the victory of President Joe Biden. Per Axios, if a representative and a senator object to the results of an individual state next week, the House and Senate will go to their chambers and vote on whether they want to maintain a challenge. Although there is support in the Republican Party, the move seems unlikely to be enough in both chambers. The House has a Democratic majority, and even though the GOP still holds the Senate on Jan. 6, several Republican senators have voiced opposition to efforts to block the outcome of the Electoral College, including Senate Leader Mitch McConnell ( R-Ky.). Read more at Axios. More stories from theweek.com America is always going to expand the vaccine 5 inexcusable funny cartoons about Trump’s shameful forgiveness The best novels I read in 2020