More GOP lawmakers seek to undo Bid en win
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has revealed a coalition of 11 senators who have signed on to help Donald Trump over turn the election.
WASHINGTON— A growing number of Republican lawmakers are joiningPresident Donald Trump’s extraordinary effffffffffffort to overturn the election, pledging to reject the results when Congress meets next week to count the Electoral College votes and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Saturday announced a coalition of 11 senatorswho have been enlisted for Trump’s effffffffffffort to subvert the will of American voters.
This follows the declaration fromSen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who was the fifirst to buck Senate leadership by saying hewould join with House Republicans in objecting to the state tallies during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress.
Trump’s refusal to accept his defeat is tearing the party apart as Republicans are forced tomake consequential choices that will set the contours of the post-Trump era. Hawley and Cruz are both among potential 2024 presidential contenders.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had urged his party not to try to over
turn what nonpartisan electionoffifficials have concluded was a free and fair vote.
The 11 senators largely acknowledgedSaturdaythey will not succeed in preventingBiden frombeinginauguratedon Jan. 20 after hewon the Electoral College 302232. Buttheirchallenges, and those from House Republicans, represent the most sweeping effffffffffffort to undo a presidential election outcome since the Civil War.
“Wedonot take this action lightly,” Cruz and the other senators said in a joint statement.
They vowed to vote against certain state electors on Wednesday unless Congress appoints an elec
toral commission to immediately conduct an audit of the election results. They are zeroing in on the states where Trump has raised unfounded claims of voter fraud. Congress is unlikely to agree to their demand.
The group, which presented no new evidence of election problems, includes Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Steve Daines of Montana, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Mike Braun of Indiana, and Sens.elect Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, RogerMarshall of Kansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.