If a statement from two Republican members of the House of Representatives is anything to go by, nearly 140 of their GOP colleagues in the House are likely to reject a request for counting the electoral votes on Jan. 6. The Congress is slated to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the recently concluded presidential election.
The Republican allies of President Donald Trump have a negligible chance of overturning the results. Their doomed-to-fail attempt to reverse the election result will at the most delay the affirmation of Biden as the next president and the winner of the Electoral College winner by a few hours. This news comes from two Republican members of the House of Representatives, who spoke to CNN.
It is worth mentioning here that there have been no concrete allegations of any issues with the voting process that would have changed the election results, as affirmed by the US Supreme Court, the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department, the Electoral College, election officials, governors, and judges. Trump, however, is bent on proving that the election was stolen from him by the Democrats.
A considerable number of GOP politicians support his dubious claims in an attempt not to provoke his wrath. Both senators, as well as a House member, is required to object when Congress counts the votes, and Missouri's Republican Senator Josh Hawley announced his plan to object on Wednesday, according to The Washington Post.
As a result, lawmakers in the Senate and the House will be forced to vote on whether they accept the results of Biden's win or not. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has previously urged Republicans to not oppose the president-elect's victory, the Associated Press reported.
With courts repeatedly rejecting Trump's attempt to overturn the election results, the president has been pressing Congress to reverse the Nov. 3 presidential election outcome. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse criticized that strategy in a Facebook post, urging the Republicans to not participate in opposing the certification process.
Sasse noted that Trump and his allies are "playing with fire, by first asking the courts, then the state legislatures and now the Congress to overturn the election results. After unsuccessfully calling on judges, they are now calling on federal officeholders' election to invalidate votes, he wrote.
He went on to point on that making big claims require evidence. However, neither the president nor the institutional arsonist members of Congress have been able to offer any evidence of voter fraud to oppose the Electoral College vote, Sasse added.