Trump Fights On As 11 Republican Senators Reject Biden’s Presidential Election Victory
January 6 is D-day
In another desperate bid to retain the American Presidency that slipped off Donald Trump’s hands on November 3, 2020, a group of 11 Republican senators and senators-elect have made public their intention to stop the upcoming certification of presidential election results by the United States (US) Congress.
The Senate Republicans are officially preparing to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College win on Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Many political pundits said the move evidently demonstrates just how far some GOP members will go in aligning themselves with Trump’s claims that the election was stolen from him.
Led by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the American lawmakers expressed their readiness to vote against the certification of electors from states where Trump is still disputing the victory of his Democrat opponent and President-elect, Joe Biden in the November 3, 2020 election.
Justifying their plans in a joint media statement, the 11 Republicans further amplified Trump’s claims that the election “featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.”
According to them; “We intend to vote on Jan. 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ (the statutory requisite), unless and until (an) emergency 10-day audit is completed.”
The current moves are expected to simply delay the certification process as outgoing president Trump, with the support of many congressional Republicans, has continued to promote ‘unfounded claims’ that the election was rigged against him.
Yet to provide material proofs that could sway any court to his side, Trump’s legal team has lost dozens of cases in the courts, and cases brought by his allies to the Supreme Court have also been rejected.
The US Electoral College has voted to confirm Biden as the next president, while some Republicans have also recently acknowledged the Democrat’s victory after weeks of allowing Trump to spread false claims of widespread voter fraud.
Congress is mandated to certify the results on Wednesday, January 6 before Biden is inaugurated on January 20.
Meanwhile, many Republicans insist effort at challenging the election results doesn’t make a ton of sense. “There’s good constitutional and other legal grounds to say: You had your day in court, 60 different lawsuits in state courts, you had a chance to appeal those to the Supreme Court, and as I read the law once a state certifies its electoral vote it’s conclusive”, said Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) in an interview
However, the 11 GOP senators said the courts should have examined the issue more closely: “Ideally, the courts would have heard evidence and resolved these claims of serious election fraud. Twice, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to do so; twice, the Court declined.”
With Trump already endorsing the senators’ move in a series of tweets, Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff, Marc Short, said his principal; “welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence.”– With Agency reports
