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Eleven senators and more than 100 congressmen want to delay the confirmation of Joe Biden in Congress, against the wishes of influential Mitch McConnell.
The uncompromising Ted Cruz is among eleven senators who want to delay Joe Biden’s confirmation in Congress.
Photo: Elijah Nouvelage (Reuters)
A group of US Republican senators has announced their opposition to the US Congress confirming the result of the presidential election. At Wednesday’s meeting they want to call for the establishment of a commission of inquiry, which will conduct a 10-day review of the election results, as announced on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Senate runoff elections in the US state of Georgia are eagerly awaited on Tuesday: it will be decided who will have the majority in the Senate in the future.
The statement was signed by seven sitting senators, including the diehard Ted Cruz, and four elected members of the Senate. The eleven senators demanded that Congress establish a commission of inquiry “immediately” to investigate possible “electoral fraud.” The accusations of “fraud” and “irregularities” in the 2020 elections went beyond “what we have seen so far.”
At the joint meeting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden will be formally confirmed. Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri had previously announced that he would oppose it. About 100 members of the House of Representatives also want to deny recognition of Biden, according to information from CNN.
No prospect of success
The initiatives could delay the final confirmation of Biden’s victory. However, they have no prospect of success. “We are not naïve,” declared the eleven senators. “We anticipate that most, if not all Democrats, and perhaps more than some Republicans, will vote differently.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had already congratulated Biden on his electoral victory after the US electorate confirmed his success over incumbent Donald Trump in mid-December. McConnell urged his party colleagues to confirm Biden’s victory in Wednesday’s session after Trump supporters failed in several courts to overturn the election result.
Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fears that the spectacle of delaying Biden’s election will only hurt his party. Several senators refuse to listen to the experienced McConnell.
Photo: Nicholas Kamm (Keystone / AP)
Confirming the winner of the presidential elections in Congress is really just a formality. Yet Trump refuses to admit defeat. In recent months, he has made numerous complaints of alleged electoral fraud without presenting any evidence. He has asked his supporters to meet in Washington on Wednesday.
Decision in Georgia
In the United States, the president is elected indirectly. On December 14, the electoral body declared Biden the winner against Trump by 306 votes, with 232 votes. 270 votes are enough for the election.
Newly elected members of the United States Congress were to be sworn in on Sunday in Washington, 17 days before Biden took office. Biden’s Democrats have secured a slim majority in the House of Representatives. It is still open if they will dominate the Senate in the future. This will be decided in the Senate runoff elections in the state of Georgia on Tuesday.
There Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler wants to defend her term against her Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock, Loeffler’s party colleague David Perdue, her Senate seat against Democrat Jon Ossoff. Polls are currently predicting close races. The second round elections are necessary because, in the first round of the November 3 elections, none of the candidates had reached the 50 percent threshold, as required by Georgia’s electoral law.
