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Saturday, January 02, 2021
Appeal scheduled in the United States Senate
Ted Cruz mobilizes against Biden
The states, the courts, the electorate – all confirm Joe Biden’s electoral victory. In the United States Congress, however, there is greater resistance to the certification of the vote. Several Republican senators want to join now.
More Republicans in the United States Senate want to appeal the upcoming certification of the results of the presidential elections in Congress. Eleven Republican senators announced this intention in a joint statement. They justified the plans with complaints of electoral fraud and alleged irregularities in voting in several states of the United States. The group demanded that Congress immediately form a commission to investigate the allegations urgently within ten days in order to have clarity before the new president’s inauguration on January 20. Otherwise, they may not be able to approve the results.
The group is led by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who is loyal to current Republican President Donald Trump. Several other Republicans in the group had only made the jump to the Senate in the November elections and will be sworn in on Sunday in the House constituent session.
Trump lost the election in early November by a clear margin to his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Yet Trump has so far refused to admit defeat. He claims that victory was stolen from him by massive fraud. Neither Trump nor his lawyers have provided any substantial evidence to back up these claims. So far, more than 50 lawsuits from Trump’s camp have been dismissed from the courts, including the United States Supreme Court.
The state electorate confirmed Biden’s clear victory. In the next step of the formal procedure after an election, the House of Representatives and the Senate will meet in a joint session on Wednesday to read the votes of the states, count them and officially announce the final result. So it is official who has won the elections.
A group of Republican House deputies and Republican Senator Josh Hawley had previously announced that they would appeal the results of individual states that day. This allows them to force both houses of congress to withdraw to separate sessions to debate the objections and ultimately vote on whether or not to follow them. However, disruptive action should only lengthen the procedure. The project is highly controversial among Republicans.
