WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. Josh Haley Wali, R.M., said Wednesday that Congress will raise objections next week when Congress meets to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Elections are likely to be delayed by forcing House and Senate votes – but will not change – Biden’s victory.
President Donald Trump, without evidence, has claimed that there was widespread fraud in the election. It has forced Republican senators to pursue their baseless allegations, although this month cemented Electoral College Lidge Biden’s 306-232 victory and several legal attempts to challenge the results have failed.
A group of Republicans The Democratic majority in the House has already said they will raise objections on behalf of Trump during the Jan. 6 election vote count, and needed a single senator with him to push votes in both chambers.
Without elaborating or providing evidence, Holly said he would object because “some states, including Pennsylvania in particular,” do not comply with their own election laws. Legal action challenging Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania has failed.
“In a very short time, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and take steps to protect the integrity of our elections,” Hawwell said in a statement. He also criticized the way Facebook and Twitter handled election-related material, calling it an attempt to help Biden.
Biden transition spokeswoman Jane Sasaki dismissed the extradition move as “antiquities” that would have no effect on Biden’s swearing-in on January 20.
“The American people have spoken out in this election and 81 million people have voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” Pasaki told reporters. He added: “Congress will certify the election results as they do every four years.”
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows praised Hawley on Twitter for “standing up for the integrity of the election.”
When Congress calls to certify the results of the Electoral College Legend, any legislator can object to the votes of any state. But the objection shall not be taken unless it is in writing and signed by both a member of the House and a member of the Senate.
When such a request comes, the joint session is adjourned and the House and Senate go to consider it in a separate session. In order for the objection to survive, both chambers must agree to it by a simple majority vote. If they disagree, the original electoral vote counts.
The last time such objections were considered was in 2005, when the Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Sen. of California. Barbara Berkser, both Democrats, objected to Ohio’s election vote, claiming there were voting irregularities. Both chambers discussed the objections and rejected them. This was the second such vote.
As Senate President, Vice President Mike Pence will chair the January 6 session and announce the winner.
Asked about Howley’s announcement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, said: “I have no doubt that next Wednesday, a week from today, Biden will be confirmed by the election college vote. The 46th President of the United States . ”
Hawley is a first-term senator and potential contender in the 2024 presidential primary, and his decision to join the House of Representatives is a blow to Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mancocknell, who told his caucus not to participate. In vain pursuit of overturning results.
The Democratic-led House will not support such a challenge, and it will not support most of its allies, the G.O.P. Aware of what would make senators binding, McConnell told them in a private call on December 15 that there would be a “terrible vote.” It is according to two people who did not have the right to discuss the private call in public and spoke on condition of anonymity.
While some Republicans have echoed Trump’s unsatisfactory claims, or at least refused to face them, McConnell and a growing number of G.O.P. Senators have acknowledged that Biden won and will be inaugurated on January 20.
Senate No. 2 Republican, South Dakota Sen. John Thuen, earlier this month, said that if the Senate was forced to vote on the challenge, “it will go down like a shot dog.” Thune said that while there is no point in putting senators through the ballot, “you know what the end result will be.”
A series of non-partisan election officials and Republicans have confirmed that there is no fraud in the November election that will change the election results. That includes former Attorney General William Barr, who said he saw no reason to appoint a special adviser to investigate the president’s claims about the 2020 election. He then resigned from his post last week.
Trump and his allies have filed about 50 lawsuits challenging the election results and almost all have been fired or dropped. He has also lost twice in the Supreme Court.
The House Republican group has said it plans to challenge election results from Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada. There are all the states that Biden carries.
One of the Republicans who led these efforts was the Alabama Rep. Moe Brooks has raised questions about how the state election went. Some states made changes to the ballot and proceedings during the epidemic. The new procedures could lead to confusion in some places, with state and federal officials saying there is no credible evidence of widespread fraud.
In addition to going on record with the vote, Republicans are concerned about the negative effects on Tuesday’s two-run Senate election in Georgia. David Perdue and Kelly Lofler face Democratic challengers John Osoff and Rafael Warnock, who switched to Biden in the state in November.
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The report was contributed by Amar Madhani, an Associated Press writer based in Chicago.
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