Johns, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, has invited two Trump campaign attorneys, including representatives from Nevada and Wisconsin and Republican Pennsylvania, as well as former independent adviser Kenneth Starr, who was part of President Donovan.
“Under the constitution and our judicial system, we have a process in this country that must be followed,” Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, who did not attend the hearing, told CNN last week. “The idea of trying to change or disrupt that process is, in my opinion, a serious mistake.”
While Trump and his allies have claimed they will continue to fight the election result, McConnell was asked to congratulate Biden on the Senate floor on Tuesday by a vote from the Electoral College College Ledge, although some Republican senators have not yet acknowledged that Biden has won.
Asked on Monday if Biden had been elected president, Johnson said he “definitely goes that route, doesn’t he?” But Johnson defended his decision to hold an election fraud hearing, saying “a large percentage of the American population does not see it as a legitimate result for many reasons.”
“Yes. I haven’t seen anything that will convince me that the results – the overall national result – will be overturned.” Said John.
The Democrats’ charge Wednesday’s hearing provides a platform for spreading the undefeated conspiracies that have been denied in court in all states of the armistice, where Trump challenged the outcome. One of the witnesses, James Trou Puppis, represents the Trump campaign in his failed court challenges in Wisconsin. Another witness, Jesse Binnal, who was Trump’s attorney in Nevada, made a baseless claim on Nov. 17 that Trump had won the state. The campaign’s Nevada challenge was also canceled.
The top Democrat on the panel, Michigan Sen. “I am appalled by the choice of so many of my colleagues to help spread the President’s lies and misrepresentations about the outcome of my 2020 election,” said Gary Peter.
Johnson’s committee has been no stranger to controversy this year. His committee released the findings of an investigation into the business dealings of Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, during the fall campaign, which Romney also criticized as a political ploy.
And last month, he invited a vaccine skeptic who has promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of Covid-19 patients – despite the Food and Drug Administration saying it should not be used to treat coronavirus patients – testifying at the committee hearing.
Congress will formally count the votes of the Electoral Vote on January 6, a process in which a group of House Republicans is considering objecting to the results of the Biden-winning states. It’s a challenge that can only delay the inevitable, but if the Republican senator joins in with the objections, both chambers will have to debate and vote on whether to support the challenge.
Johnson said last week that the hearing would help him decide whether to object, and another GOP senator who has not refused to join the House Republican, Kentucky’s Rand Poll, is a member of the Homeland Security Committee.
On Tuesday, however, Johnson told the Journal-Sentinel that he had no current plans to object to the election on the floor. “Something has to come to the surface that will call into question the legitimacy of the election,” he said.
CNN’s Manu Raju and Ali Zaslaw contributed to the report.
.
