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Donald Trump responds to leading Republicans who recognize Joe Biden as president with a new video on voter fraud.
He urges his supporters to protest to their local politicians.
And according to CNN, he has raised the idea of refusing to leave the White House with his advisers.
Pressure has been high on Republican Majority Leaders in the Senate to acknowledge the election result and congratulate Joe Biden on the victory. Only after the Electoral College vote did Mitch McConnell decide to do just that on Tuesday.
– I want to congratulate incoming President Biden, he said in a speech in the Senate.
– Many of us expected that the presidential election would lead to a different result. But our electoral system has its process of deciding who to swear in on January 20. The Electoral College has spoken.
Many other top Republicans who also stubbornly defended Donald Trump’s proposals on deception and fraud have also bowed and now say they accept the election result.
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Majoritetsledaren Mitch McConnell.
McConnell responds on Twitter
The president did not take the message silently.
Earlier Wednesday, Donald Trump responded to his close confidant Mitch McConnell on Twitter. “Mitch, 75 million votes, a record for a sitting president (by far). Too early to give up. The Republican Party must finally learn to fight. People are angry!” The president wrote.
Overnight, after some tweets about rigged voting machines, dead voters, and how Fox News played into the hands of radical left-wing Democrats, the president released a video targeting his 88 million supporters with a call: Get in touch with their local political representatives and requires “a fair election and a fair recount.”
The one-minute video repeats many of the earlier arguments Donald Trump used to overshadow the election result: He received more votes than any sitting president before, he has saved the economy and he has been behind the rapid development of vaccines. But something happened and Joe Biden and the Democrats managed to steal the election by handing out ballots in the middle of the night, illegally counting votes, and so on.
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Donald Trump has posted a video about voter fraud on Twitter.
Painted like a traitor
And others in the president’s hard core continue to back the accusations and anger at Mitch McConnell over the decision to recognize Joe Biden and calling on his Republican colleagues in the Senate to stop scheming to continue the fight against the election.
Lawyer Lin Wood, linked to Donald Trump, calls the Majority Leader a “traitor to American patriots” and Marjorie Taylor Greene, a member of the House of Representatives and a supporter of Qanon’s conspiracy theories, wrote on Twitter that all the Republicans who do not continue to act against the elections support the Chinese takeover of the United States by the Communist Party.
The final straw is to pressure members of Congress to protest when the Electoral College voting result is formally considered on January 6. When votes are counted under the impeachment of Vice President Mike Pence, one state is taken at a time.
If a member of the House of Representatives and a member of the Senate jointly protest against the result in a state, the control bill is suspended and the matter is debated for two hours in each house.
In theory, one can protest 50 times, once for each state. But the plan, under House Representative Mo Brooks, is to protest the result in all five wavemaster states that Joe Biden won and that got him to the finish line. The strategy is expected to fall into the planning stage already, as no senator has signaled that they are behind the protests.
You can refuse to leave the White House
And after the Senate vote on January 6, Donald Trump is looking to carry the fight through to installation day on January 20, CNN reports. According to the television channel, Donald Trump has raised the idea that his advisers simply refuse to leave the White House after the installation of Joe Biden. However, the idea must have been quickly rejected by the employees.
According to CNN, the president’s thoughts have worried advisers, but few believe he will actually move forward with those plans.
– He’s having a fucking tantrum. He will go away. It just barks, says a CNN adviser.
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Donald Trump.
Despite the fact that the majority of Republican senators now acknowledge Joe Biden’s election victory and no one is expected to challenge the Electoral College results, many have not abandoned the idea that cheating may be behind it. This despite a series of lawsuits that have failed to convince the judges that there is evidence of this.
And the Senate hearings, which were held this Wednesday to go through possible irregularities in the election, show that the gap between the parties remains abysmal.
– There were cheats in the elections. I have no doubts about that, says Senator Ron Johnson, who organized the Senate hearings, according to the Washington Post.
– The election was stolen in many ways, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said during questioning without linking it to any evidence according to the newspaper.
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, as Donald Trump has in the past, used the fact that many Republican voters believe that fraud has occurred as proof that it probably did.
– Yesterday I spoke with voters from my home in Missouri, about 30 people. Everyone told me that they felt deprived, that their votes were not counted, that the election was rigged. They are normal and sensible people. These aren’t crazy, he said during Senate hearings, the Washington Post claims.
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