National Republicans are desperate to avoid a fight in Congress for certification of the Electoral College vote next month, believing it would be a horrible policy to continue delivering what most recognize as a desperate battle to overturn the outcome of the elections.
Leader of the Senate majority Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump signs bill extending government funding for 24 hours Surprise prevention of medical bill included in end-of-year legislative package of Congress to pass agreement with 0 stimulus controls (R-Ky.) He has intervened by asking his members not to join the rep. Mo Brooks
Morris (Mo) Jackson BrooksGOP lawmakers appear more frequently in Newsmax The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Mastercard – COVID-19 Relief, Bus Talks Reach the Thread Electoral College challenge vote MORE (R-Wing.) Or any other member of the House who wishes to oppose the results on January 6, when Congress meets to certify the count of the Electoral College.
President Trump
Donald Trump: Trump signs a bill that extends government funding for 24 hours. Congress approves the bill one day before the cut-off deadline. he campaigns for pressure for senators to revolt. Incoming Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Wing), who will be sworn in Jan. 3, has said he will join the ground fight and the senator. Rand Paul
Randal (Rand) Howard PaulGOP lawmakers appear more frequently in Newsmax Krebs – emphasizing election security while senators take the lead. False accounts put by GOP leaders in Parler sell Trump hats and CBD oil: report MORE (R-Ky.), Who has said he believes the election was “stolen” from Trump, is always a wildcard.
Republican strategists hope McConnell can crush the insurgency, believing that the debate over Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the 2020 election is breaking the party ahead of the Jan. 5 election in Georgia that will determine the balance of power. in the Senate.
They say it’s bad for Republican Party efforts to reclaim suburban voters if the party partners with erratic flamethrowers, such as pro-Trump lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and Rudy Giuliani
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And after an election in which the Republican Party became more diverse, Republican strategists are furious at the harm they say is being done to black voters, as the Trump campaign seeks to get votes cast in Atlanta , Milwaukee, Detroit and other places.
“The result of any fight on the ground will be the same as the Electoral College vote and all those court cases that the campaign has already lost, so it’s smarter to wait until 2022 and the second round of Georgia and other races we can win, instead of races we can’t, ”said a well-connected Republican.
“The judicial losses, the advertising losses we suffer when our senior lawyer has ink running down the side of his face and has become the laughing stock of American legal circles, these things are piling up to hurt the image of the president, “the person added.
A riot on the floor of a handful of Republicans on Jan. 6 is unlikely to get anywhere.
The Democratic-controlled House will not recognize the effort to launch the results in the major battlefield states that Biden won. Many Republican senators, including the president’s conservative allies like Sens. Ron Johnson
Ronald (Ron) Harold JohnsonCongress barrels toward veto clash with Trump Trump signs bill to keep government open amid relief talks On The Money: Congress passes law to prevent closure as coronavirus talks drag on on the weekend | The Federal Reserve struggle endangers MORE relief talks (Sat.), Mike Lee
Michael (Mike) Shumway Lee The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Mastercard – Congress Towards COVID-19 Relief, Bus Agreement Johnson and Lee Don’t Intend to Challenge Electoral College Results Senate GOP leaders are trying to end MORE election disputes (Utah) i Mike Braun
Michael BraunCongress will have to cross the deadline in the middle of talks on coronavirus Johnson, Lee does not intend to challenge the results of the GOP divided by Trump’s election demand in Texas (Ind.), Say they will not join the effort.
Brooks only needs a partner in the Senate to oppose the results, and he may have that in Paul or Tuberville. Even if the Senate approves its objections, the results would return to the states, where in all likelihood the governors would recertify the results.
Still, a handful of tough GOP militants insist the election was stolen from Trump through widespread fraud, despite dozens of campaign losses in the courts.
Brooks told Newsmax Friday that the “absolute right” of Republicans is to fight to decertify election results in states where he says electoral systems were “very flawed.”
“I know how some of these creatures in Congress and the Senate are trying to avoid being brave when it comes to what they call hard votes,” Brooks said. “But in my opinion, this is what we were chosen to do. I can only control my own vote, how I will behave in relation to this electoral fraud and electoral theft ”.
Preparing for the ground fight threatens to consume Republican Party efforts to win elections in Georgia, where a Senate majority will be determined Jan. 5, a day before Congress meets to certify the election.
Georgia has become the zero point of the efforts of Trump and his allies to discredit election results. The president lost to Georgia by just about 10,000 votes, making Biden the first Democratic presidential candidate to win since 1992.
The president and his allies have criticized the government. Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp Trump returned to Georgia to push Republican Senate candidates for Georgia Gov. Kemp’s government at the White House Christmas festivities despite Trump’s attacks. Pence seeks to reassure Georgia voters amid Trump’s attacks MORE (R) and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), accusing them of not doing enough to investigate allegations of fraud.
Pro-Trump lawyers Powell and Wood have alleged that the voting machines were manipulated to steal votes from Trump and that Republican Party officials received backing from Democrats, although they have not provided any evidence of these claims in the courts.
They have also asked Georgians not to vote in the special election, saying the results cannot be trusted. Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn became the latest Trump World figure to ask questions about the validity of the January runoff and called it a “false choice” in an interview with Newsmax Friday.
This is a rage of Republicans who are desperate to choose the Republican majority in the Senate to act as Biden’s control.
“Some of these people are actively working against Republicans,” said Seth Weathers, who served as Trump’s state director in Georgia in 2016. “I’m a tough Republican, but we just can’t embrace some of these conspiracy theories or girls and wait to build a party “.
The president’s refusal to recognize Biden as the winner has been the final straw for some Republicans.
Outgoing representative Paul Mitchell
Paul Mitchell The post-election is about the soul of longtime Republican Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, who announces Democrat’s record The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Mastercard – American inoculations begin; state voters certify Biden; Barr is MORE (R-Mich.) He announced that he would leave the party and said that “it is unacceptable for political candidates to treat our electoral system as if we were a third world nation and incite them to distrust something as basic as the sanctity of the our vote “.
Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, who joined the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project during the general election, will remain a Republican.
But Steele warned that efforts to nullify the results would have long-term consequences for the party, especially in its efforts to be more attractive to black voters.
Trump has fared better with black voters than previous Republican presidents. But his campaign efforts to question the vote in urban democratic strongholds have infuriated black Republicans like Steele.
“It really puts the game in an unsustainable position,” Steele said. “That McConnell has to worry about someone in the Senate doubling that nonsense.”
“I honestly find it frustrating, embarrassing and surprising that Republicans still don’t know how to win. We got 11 seats in the House and we became more diverse and we could keep the Senate, “he said.” But instead of building on that, senators may openly question the results. It tells you a lot about how black voters see it. The fact that they are trying to get the vote in some of these places is not lost on black voters.