“Pence shares the concern of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the recent election. The Vice President welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to protest “Before the Congress and the American people on January 6,” Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, told CNN in a statement.
At least 140 House Republicans, along with their Republican counterparts in the Senate, are expected to vote against the vote count in Congress, but according to two members of the GOP House, the attempt has virtually no chance of changing the election result. , only to delay for a few hours the inevitable confirmation of Biden’s victory as the election college winner and next president.
Last week, Senator Josh Hawley became the first senator to announce plans to object to the results – an important step because a member of the House and a senator are needed to object when Congress counts election votes . The Republican from Missouri on Sunday was still looking at how many states he could object to and whether he would object to more than just Pennsylvania, according to a source familiar with his thinking.
For each state to which Hawley objected, the House and Senate must debate and vote separately for two hours each. Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, leads a group of ten other GOP senators who have publicly said they will vote for an objection when Hawley brings one. Cruz’s coalition has not finally decided whether any of the senators will actually object as Hawley plans.
The source told CNN that Hawley and Trump talk regularly, given their close relationship, that Hawley also heard from members of Trump’s campaign team. The source nevertheless said that Hawley and his team independently reviewed information that the campaign team brought forward.
None of the challenges will change the fact that Biden will be the next president of the United States, and several courts have voiced challenges for the election.