Vice President Pence’s chief of staff said Saturday in a statement Saturday that the vice president “celebrates” the effort of some lawmakers to “raise objections” on Jan. 6, when Congress meets to certify the College’s vote. Electoral.
“Vice President Pence shares the concerns of millions of Americans about fraud and electoral irregularities in the last election,” Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, said in a statement to The Hill.
“The vice president celebrates the effort of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and present evidence to Congress and the American people on January 6,” the statement continued. .
The comment is the most extensive observation the Pence office has made about the January 6 proceedings after a hotly contested election between President Trump
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In the roughly two months since election day, Pence has stopped explicitly echoing Trump’s language that the election was fraudulent, rather than calling for all “legal votes” to be counted. However, he has not publicly discouraged the efforts of the president or his allies to challenge or nullify election results.
His statement comes a day after it was a lawsuit by the Republican Party that sought to give him the authority to annul the election results on January 6. fired for lack of standing.
Pence will chair the Jan. 6 meeting, but his role is mostly ceremonial.
Dozens of current and incoming House Republicans have indicated they would challenge the polling station vote during Wednesday’s meeting. Official Party Representatives Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Matt Gaetz
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His. Josh Hawley
Joshua (Josh) David Hawley The former GOP senator suggests forming a new party, saying Trump is a “master” of Georgia’s Republicans. (R-Mo.) He was the first Republican Party senator to indicate he would join the effort last week. His objection, along with a House legislator, is enough to ensure that both houses should debate and vote in the House and Senate on the issue.
A majority of both houses would have to vote to defend the objection in order to be successful.
However, the effort is unlikely to succeed as Democrats control the House and several Republican senators have said they would oppose any objection.
Hawley, along with other Republican lawmakers, have expressed concern about the number of allegations of election fraud following the 2020 presidential election. Trump and his allies have repeatedly alleged that the election was a fraud. widespread electoral.
However, senior election officials, in addition to former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, have confirmed that there is no evidence of widespread fraud.
The move to challenge election results next week picked up new momentum on Saturday after 11 p.m. Republican Party Senators dit which they would oppose until there was a 10-day audit of electoral returns in certain states.
President-elect Biden won 306 electoral votes compared to President Trump’s 232, and Biden led Trump by 7 million votes in the popular vote.
– Brett Samuels contributed