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The outgoing president’s most fervent supporters will try again in Congress Wednesday to block Joe Biden’s inauguration.
You should know Donald Trump better: Senator Ted Cruz leads the eleven senators who refuse to acknowledge Joe Biden’s election victory.
Brynn Anderson (AP)
Generally, what happens next Wednesday in Congress is a formality. The House and Senate meet, count the electorate’s votes, and then Acting Vice President Mike Pence officially declares who won the election. But nothing is normal in the presidency of Donald Trump, which is why this Wednesday is a political spectacle without parallel in the history of the United States.
Eleven Republican Senators They have announced that they will oppose the recount. Of course, against a census that is not really a census, but a ritual: the result of the presidential elections has been determined for a long time. None of these eleven senators has presented evidence that the election was not correct.
Most Republicans do not participate
The procedure stipulates that a two-hour debate will take place in both houses of Congress if a member of the House of Representatives and the Senate oppose the certification of the results. In addition to the eleven senators headed by Texan Ted Cruz, at least one congressman, Mo Brooks of Alabama, will appeal.
After the debate, votes are taken in both chambers, and only if both chambers voted with a simple majority against the certification of the electoral results, the electoral result would be in doubt. That is, on the one hand, ruled out in fact because Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives, and on the other hand, because most Republicans are not involved in this political stunt.
Action has no consequences
Trump, on the other hand, praised all eleven senators. “Our country will love her for it!” He wrote. In particular, Ted Cruz, who now leads the loyalist group, might know that when Trump loses, he basically claims that something was wrong. When Cruz and Trump ran to become Republican presidential candidates in 2016, Cruz managed to win an Iowa primary. Trump later claimed without any foundation that Cruz stole his election.
At the time, Trump also claimed that Cruz’s father had something to do with the attempted assassination of John F. Kennedy. He also insulted his wife Heidi. That didn’t stop Cruz from becoming one of Trump’s most ardent supporters, which is why he is considered the tamest man on Capitol Hill alongside South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.
All eleven Republican senators admitted in their announcement that their action would have no consequences. Still, they have chosen to bow to Donald Trump’s will one last time.
