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The United States Congress is scheduled to meet in its two houses later Wednesday night to ratify the Electoral College voting results or those known to the main voters who elected Biden.
This is the last step before the president-elect takes office on January 20.
Trump anticipated the congressional meeting, his theoretically last chance to hold office, with two steps showing his grip on power.
The first step was to invite his supporters to participate in a massive protest to be held in Washington, DC, against the election results. “Stop the robbery,” Trump said in a tweet calling for participation in the protest.
The US authorities fear that things will get out of their control in this protest and that violent acts will break out that will not take place, especially with the statements of extremist groups about their intention to participate.
Therefore, the US capital witnessed a large security alert in anticipation of any emergency, and the Pentagon agreed to deploy National Guard forces in Washington.
In fact, about 340 of them are scattered near subway stations, the White House, and Congress.
Adding to the seriousness of the matter is that Trump has confirmed that he will address the protesters, which could generate more tension.
The second step was to call Trump on his vice president, Mike Pence, to make efforts to reverse the results of the presidential election during a congressional meeting.
Trump expressed hope that Pence would do “something” in favor of the president’s election campaign, saying that “the vice president is authorized to reject the votes of members of the Electoral College, who were elected fraudulently.”
But CNN reported that Pence informed Trump that he could block the certification of the election results.
The vice president of the United States has few powers and his presidency of the Senate is largely honorary.
Pence’s role in formally endorsing Biden’s victory in the presidential election, at the joint meeting of both houses of Congress, is also symbolic and is overseeing the electoral college vote count.
The founders and framers of the United States Constitution realized that the vice president would have a great vested interest in who would win, so they maintained their symbolic role, as he would have to open the envelopes presented by each state and announce with a clear voice. the number of voters who came to each candidate.
Republican lawmakers joined Trump in trying to block the certification of the election results, but their attempt has no chance of doing so, and the most they can do is delay the confirmation of Biden’s victory.
Successive attempts by Trump to reverse the outcome of the vote that led to the victory of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, failed.
For example, 60 lawsuits filed in court did not challenge the validity of the election results, and requests for a vote recount in various states, as well as Georgia, led to the same result: Biden won.
Despite this, the Republican president, whose term ends two weeks later, still refuses to acknowledge his defeat to his Democratic opponent, claiming that the elections were “stolen” from him by fraud, without providing evidence of this.
Democrats won one of two heated races for Georgia’s two state Senate seats on Wednesday, and are advancing on the other, moving closer to a victory that will give them control over the House and power to achieve the president-elect’s political goals. Democrat Joe Biden.
Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock, a priest of the church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, surpassed current Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, becoming the first black senator in the history of the state in the heart of the American South.
If he wins, Democratic nominee John Usoff, a documentary maker, will become the youngest senator at 33 and ahead of Republican nominee David Purdue in the race for the second seat in Georgia.
The final outcome of the competition for this seat is not expected to be clear until later Wednesday at the earliest.
The results are President Trump’s rejection of a state that he has dominated for decades, his Republican party.
Trump participated in propaganda for Republican candidates in Georgia on Monday, but his two-month effort to reverse his defeat in the presidential election by launching allegations of fraud eclipsed his support for them.
Trump’s efforts in this regard included criticism of Republican officials in the state.
