Rep. Mo Brooks
Morris (Mo) Jackson BrooksGOP tries to avoid Trump’s messy fight for Noem Electoral College rules out Thune’s challenge after Trump criticizes Senator Trump for attacking Thune: “It will be primary in 2022” MORE (R-Wing.) He seeks a Republican in the Senate to participate in his guaranteed effort to fail to overthrow the election results on January 6th.
The struggle emerges as a dividing point between the leadership of the Senate and the Republican Party President Trump
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Leader of the Senate majority Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Trump criticizes Senate Republicans before voting election results and urges “fight” Biden faces Congress for more coronavirus relief COVID-19 could complicate Pelosi’s path to president on next year MORE (R-Ky.) He privately warns his opposition caucus that it would force a high-profile vote that would not change the outcome, while Trump has publicly supported the effort and met with a group of conservative pirates to plot the strategy.
There is no chance that Republicans who support Trump could block the results when Congress formally counts the votes of the Electoral College on Jan. 6, with the whip of a Senate majority John Thune
John Randolph ThuneTrump criticizes Senate Republicans before voting election results and urges a “fight” Biden faces fighting with Congress to get more relief from the coronavirus. The Republican Party seeks to prevent Trump’s disorderly struggle for the MORE Electoral College (RS.D.) predicting that he will “come down like a shot dog” in the upper chamber.
In order for Congress to oppose a state’s election results, majorities in both houses would have to vote to defend the objection, which has never happened.
But Brooks only needs a Republican Party senator to side with him to force a debate and vote on any objections. If successful, it would be the third time Congress would have to debate an objection since 1887, according to the Congressional Research Service.
These are the five Republicans in the Senate who have to see in the struggle of the Electoral College.
Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville (bottom)
Tuberville does not enter the Senate until Jan. 3, but he is already causing leadership headaches.
Tuberville, who closely aligned himself with Trump while defeating the former attorney general Jeff Sessions
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Tuberville suggested in a video, posted online by progressive activist Lauren Windsor, that she would support challenging the results, saying, “You’ve been reading about this in the House. We’ll have to do it in the Senate.”
Tuberville’s campaign director has also said he is considering “very seriously” opposing the Electoral School results next month.
Trump and his allies have taken advantage of Tuberville’s potential objection, placing him in a well-known political bond.
Trump revealed in a radio interview with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani
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But he is likely to face the efforts of Senate Republican Party leaders to dissuade him from moving forward, or at least read what he thinks. A senior Republican Party senator said they expected McConnell to call Tuberville.
“I hope he does not. I think it’s time … to move on, “Thune said of Tuberville.” The fact is that it’s been litigated over and over again. … It’s time to do it. ”
His. Kelly Loeffler
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Loeffler, who was appointed to the Senate in 2020, is under strict scrutiny as a possible objector as she joins Trump in Georgia’s January 2 election.
Loeffler, who does not speak to Capitol reporters, has not recognized the president-elect Joe Biden
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Asked at a recent campaign stop, Loeffler declined and said “there’s a lot to play here in Georgia.”
“We have a lot of research going on right now. We are in front of the courts and we must continue to let this process unfold. My focus today is January 5th. We have to win this election, “Loeffler added.
Loeffler has a unique political position within the Republican Senate group. Unlike his colleagues, who are guaranteed a political career that lasts longer than Trump’s White House term, Loeffler’s political future is changing.
He needs Trump supporters to be numerous in order for him to win next month in Georgia, where he is fighting for the last two years of the retired senator. Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson With the Senate at stake, Georgia is on our minds The Battle of the Georgia Senate is a high-stakes poker game Collins urges voters to go to the Georgia qualifiers MOREterm of. She and the senator. David Perdue
David PerdueBiden works with Senate Republicans: “I’ll never embarrass them publicly” Ossoff, Warnock every rake of more than 0 million judges Judge launches GOP lawsuit to close Georgia polls after business hours (R-Ga.), Who is seeking re-election for a second term, has already given his support behind lawsuits that try to challenge the way the state manages ballot boxes by absence.
But Perdue, unlike Loeffler, will lose his seat in the Senate until the results of Georgia’s election are determined, removing him from the electoral college’s council for the fight.
His. Rand Paul
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Paul is being closely watched as a potential ally of Brooks and his housemates.
The libertarian-leaning Republican senator is one of Trump’s closest allies in the Senate and, unlike many of his Republican Party colleagues, has been willing to echo the president’s allegations of election fraud even when a court after another has diverted them for lack of evidence.
“It simply came to our notice then. The election was stolen in many ways and the only way to fix it is by enforcing the laws in the future, “Paul said during a Senate hearing this month with Christopher Krebs, the president’s former cybersecurity chief.
Election experts have rejected allegations of widespread fraud, as well as state officials, including several Republicans.
Paul is known to be a thorn in the side: he slowly passed a bipartisan defense bill earlier this month and is trying to throw sand in the procedural gears of a possible veto overturn. He did not participate in the rally where McConnell warned Republicans not to oppose it next month.
Asked to join efforts to undo the election results on Jan. 6, Paul told reporters, “I haven’t considered it or thought about doing anything.”
His. Josh Hawley
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Hawley faces dueling considerations: he has been closely linked to Trump, aligning himself with him in a fight to rename Confederate military bases and pushing the president to give a second round of stimulus payments like apart from a mammoth end-of-year coronavirus agreement.
But he is also seen as a potential candidate for the 2024 presidency after firing the party’s ladder in the Senate in 2019. Hawley has been trying to build his own brand as a conservative populist, but he could also have to stick closely with the president, who has flirted with his own bid for 2024 and maintains strong control of the party base.
Hawley is not the only one emerging in this category. Sen. Tom Cotton
Tom Bryant CottonCoronavirus relief deal relies on talks on Fed credit powers Congress barrels into veto clash with battle of Trump’s defense bill shows GOP 2024 candidates MORE (R-Ark.), Also considered close to Trump, has also not said whether he will challenge the results on Jan. 6. His spokeswoman did not answer any questions on the matter.
Hawley has yet to say whether he will challenge the election results when Congress counts the Electoral College vote next month and said late last week he was still undecided.
His. Ted Cruz
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Cruz, like Hawley and Cotton, a potential candidate in 2024, has refused to rule out challenging election results on Jan. 6.
Cruz, who ranked second in the 2020 GOP White House primaries, had a combative relationship with Trump during the 2016 election, including his refusal to approve Trump despite speaking at the GOP convention.
But Cruz has received support behind Trump’s election fights, even as a senator from his Texas governing group. John Cornyn
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Cruz pushed the Supreme Court to take on a Texas-led case that challenged Biden’s victory in four key states and accepted an offer from Trump to argue the case if the court had taken it, which he rejected, giving a high to the president. profile slap.
Brooks has briefed the Senate GOP steering committee, of which Cruz is a member, on his plan as he has tried to win crucial supporters.
“There are still several lawsuits pending,” Cruz said Monday when asked if he would challenge the results next month. “We have to let the legal process unfold.”