President Trump raises supporters on Wednesday at a rally near the White House as Congress prepares to convene a joint session to count the electoral votes, the last step before President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on the 20th. January. at the Capitol, and even told the crowd that “I’ll be with you” on the march to the Capitol, even though there’s no two-mile walk on the president’s calendar.
Trump repeated false claims that the election was rigged, that Biden did not win, and that Vice President Mike Pence can change the outcome of the election.
“I hope Mike does the right thing, I hope so. I hope so. Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we’ll win the election,” Trump falsely said. “… He has the absolute right to do so. We are supposed to protect our country, support our country, support our Constitution and protect our Constitution.
The president stated that he has just spoken to Pence and told his vice president that it does not take courage to do what he wants.
“I said,‘ Mike, that’s not worth the courage. What is needed is courage to do nothing, “the president told his supporters.
Then repeated failed attempts a reverse the result from court elections and pressuring state legislatures to settle their own voter list, Trump is now making another last effort, looking toward Republicans in Congress and Vice President Mike Pence to hand him a second term.
Pence, as president of the Senate, will chair the joint session, during which the electoral votes of each state are read and counted. Pence does not have the authority to do what Trump suggests.
Still, some Republican senators and dozens of Republicans in the House plan to do so challenges election results of some battlefield states making written objections to their electoral votes. Efforts, however, will be futile, as sustaining an objection and invalidating a state’s votes requires the support of a simple majority in both the House and Senate. Democrats have the majority of seats in the lower house and are very unlikely to join the challenges of the electoral votes cast for Mr Biden. A number of Republicans they have also described it as unconstitutional efforts.
But Mr. Trump did not stop at his desire to overturn the results of Wednesday’s election. She also said she wants to rid the Republican Party of “weak” members of Congress, such as “Liz Cheney,” the third-ranked Republican in the House and the only woman in the House Republican Party leadership.
While holding the joint session on Capitol Hill, thousands of Trump supporters have come down to Washington, DC, to attend the rally at the Ellipse, a park between the White House and the Washington Monument, and protest election results.
The District of Columbia National Guard has activated 340 members to support the DC Metropolitan Police during pro-Trump demonstrations in response to a request from Mayor Muriel Bowser.