Senate Republicans say majority leader Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Bipartisan and bicameral group urges Trump to sign COVID-19 relief package Meghan McCain says everyone except healthy people under 65 gets the vaccine before Republican front-line workers are scrambling to avoid a MORE year-end legislative disaster (R-Ky.) He will contact Senate Elector Tommy Tuberville (Wing) to try to avoid a messy fight next month to finalize the results of the Electoral College vote.
Republican whip of the Senate John Thune
The last few weeks of John Randolph ThuneTrump are wreaking havoc for Congress Republicans to fight to avoid a year-end legislative disaster. Noem rules out Thune’s challenge after Trump criticizes Senator MORE (SD) said Republican Party leaders will tell Tuberville that voting to suspend the Electoral College vote count next month will be a useless and politically damaging move.
“Ultimately, every senator will have to make their own decision about it, but I think there will be people, yes, who will be approaching him to find out” what he will do, Thune said about Tuberville’s intentions on the count of the Electoral College. January 6.
“If anything else, we need to know the plan,” he added. “See me. He has made some public statements” about his objection to the vote.
“I am waiting in the end for all senators to conclude that we need to end this election and it is time to continue,” he said.
President Trump
Donald TrumpPowell says White House aides will not let her help Judge Trump launch Republican lawsuit to close Georgia polls after business hours Bipartisan, bicameral group urges Trump to sign relief package COVID-19 MORE is cheering on Tuberville, who defeated the former Sen. Jeff Sessions
Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsNicolle Wallace asks Chris Christie if he’s trying to “clean up Trump’s stink” before 2024 Barr leaves behind a conflicting legacy at DOJ Warren planning to release new book “Persist” in April MORE (R-Wing.) In the Republican primaries in Alabama with Trump’s support, to dispute the electoral balance when Congress convenes a joint session next month.
Trump said in a radio interview over the weekend that he spoke with Tuberville about the vote-counting challenge and that the incoming senator seemed enthusiastic about the idea.
“He’s very excited,” Trump said, adding that Tuberville is grateful for the president’s support during the election. He said, “You’ve made me the most popular politician in the United States. He said, ‘I can’t believe it. It’s great. Great senator.’
A Republican senator said he expects McConnell to come to Tuberville to persuade him that it is not a good idea to force a debate in the Senate on the legitimacy of any state’s electoral votes.
“I’m sure the leader will get in touch with him and talk to him,” the senior lawmaker said of the wait for McConnell to try to intervene to avoid a messy fight over election results.
“It simply came to our notice then [Tuberville] listen because all his elections were based on Trump not liking Sessions, “the senator added.” From a cold-blooded standpoint … if Trump asks him, I guess he probably would because he wouldn’t see any inconvenience. ” .
Tuberville defeated Sessions, who represented Alabama in the Senate for 20 years before leaving Congress to serve as Trump’s attorney general, in the July primaries thanks in large part to Trump’s support.
Trump endorsed Tuberville on Twitter in March as “a real leader who will never drop MAGA / KAG, not even our country!”
McConnell, chairman of the Thune and Senate Standards Committee Roy Blunt
Roy Dean Blunt: Trump’s Bill Sent to Florida The last few weeks of Trump have created chaos for the Democratic Republic of Congo senator who warns that controls cannot pass, and urges Trump to sign a agreement COVID MORE (R-Mo.) Everyone has advised GOP senators not to contest the election vote next month.
“I haven’t spoken to him personally, but I would be surprised if someone hasn’t spoken to him,” the senator said. John Cornyn
John CornynRelief’s passage of the law jeopardizes the struggle to declare victory and blames Congress for passing for seven days to gain time for the COVID-19 funding agreement. (R-Texas,), a GOP Senate leadership adviser.
“It’s basically going through the moves,” Cornyn said as opposed to Electoral College accounting when there is no possibility of reversing the results. “It’s a useless exercise.”
“I hope no senator decides,” he said before adding that there is no way Republican Party leaders can be sure of what happens next month.
“Everyone up here is a free agent,” he said
State election officials across the country have already certified the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election, and Trump’s legal team has provided no evidence to support his allegations of widespread election fraud, which the courts have rejected. roundly.
Rep. Mo Brooks
Morris (Mo) Jackson BrooksNoem rules out Thune’s challenge after Trump criticizes Senator Trump for attacking Thune: “It will be primary in 2022” The growing number of Republican Party lawmakers defies the Electoral University challenge MORE (R-Wing.) He plans to contest Biden’s victory when the House meets on Jan. 6 to consider the votes of the Electoral College. Some other House Republicans have said they will join Brooks, but he needs a senator to do so to force a debate and vote in both houses.
If any senator signs an objection from a member of the House to informed electoral votes from Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin or any other swing state, he or she would suspend the joint session and force each House to debate and vote on the issue separately.
McConnell warned Republican colleagues in the Senate during a Dec. 15 conference call that opposing the counting of election votes by certain states on Jan. 6 would be a political mistake.
According to senators who took part in the debate, he said it would be politically detrimental for Republican senators to be re-elected to vote on such a divisive issue.
Senators voting to reject the objection face Trump’s anger, which could diminish the support of Trump’s loyalists in future elections.
Trump in recent days has unleashed his frustration with Senate Republicans for not joining his effort to contest the election.
Mitch, 75,000 votes, a record for an incumbent president (by far). Too soon to surrender, “he tweeted to McConnell.” The Republican Party must finally learn to fight. People are angry! “
On Tuesday, Trump threatened Thune with a major challenge in 2022 to urge his Republicans not to oppose the Electoral College count.
“Republicans in the Senate forget so quickly. Right now they would lower 8 seats without supporting them in the last election. RINO John Thune, “Mitch’s boy,” should just let him play. South Dakota doesn’t like weakness. It will be primary in 2022, the political career is over !!! Trump tweeted.
Senators who vote to support efforts to cast electoral votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin or other states also face a backlash.
Meaning. Kelly Loeffler
Kelly LoefflerOssoff, Warnock each rake of more than 0 million judges. The judge launches the GOP’s demand to close Georgia’s ballot boxes after business hours. Warnock says he will focus on Georgians after the video of the ex-wife MORE’s surfaces (R-Ga.) – if he wins a second round on January 5 – i Ron Johnson
Ronald (Ron) Harold Johnson Juan Williams: The Republican Party’s Betrayal of American Republicans Desperate to Avoid the Floor Fight to Vote Electoral College Congress Barrels to Veto Clash with Trump MORE (R-Wis.) They are available for re-election in 2022 in states facing unfounded claims of widespread electoral fraud.
Republicans must also defend the senator’s withdrawal. Pat Toomey
Patrick (Pat) Joseph Toomey The government used the Patriot Act to gather records of website visitors in 2019 The appeals court rules that the massive collection of telephone data from the illegal NSA Dunford withdraws from consideration to chair the MORE coronavirus monitoring panelseat (R) in Pennsylvania. Toomey has dismissed Trump’s allegations of fraud to voters in his home state, alleging a lack of evidence.
Thune said the Republican Party leadership wants to “encourage all of our members, including new members, to have a lot of work ahead of us and that reviewing this requires a lot of time and energy and political capital that could be better used working in a agenda for next year “.