Vice President Mike Pence said he welcomes efforts by lawmakers to challenge Electoral College results in the upcoming congressional joint session on Jan. 6, when the votes are formally counted, according to a statement sent by his chief of staff to reporters.
Vice President Chief of Staff Marc Short issued the statement on Saturday saying that Pence, who will be presiding over the Jan. 6 session as president of the senate, is open to considering planned objections by Republican House members and senators to Electoral College votes cast for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Short added that the vice president also welcomes efforts by lawmakers to present evidence of election irregularities and alleged voter fraud before Congress during that session.
“Vice President Pence shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election,” Short said in the statement sent to media outlets.
This comes after a group of 11 Republican senators announced their intention to challenge the electoral college votes from contested states earlier on Saturday. The group, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), said the 2020 election “featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations, and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.”
The allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election “exceed any in our lifetimes,” they said, adding that this “deep distrust” of U.S. democratic processes “will not magically disappear” and “should concern us all,” whether or not elected officials or journalist believe the allegations.
“It poses an ongoing threat to the legitimacy of any subsequent administrations,” the senators wrote in their statement, while calling on Congress to appoint an electoral commission to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election results.
They added that they intend to object to the votes unless and until the emergency 10-day audit is completed.
The group includes Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.). Meanwhile, Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) also plan on joining. They’ll be sworn in on Sunday, several days before the joint session.
Their announcement means 12 senators intend to object to the contested electoral votes on Jan. 6.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was the first senator to announce his plans to object earlier this week. Forty House members plan on objecting to electoral votes, according to a tally by The Epoch Times.
Objections during the joint session must be made in writing by at least one House member and one senator. If the objection for any state meets this requirements, the joint session pauses and each house withdraws to its own chamber to debate the question for a maximum of two hours. The House and the Senate then vote separately to accept or reject the objection, which requires a majority vote from both chambers.
If both candidates receive less than 270 electoral votes on Jan. 6, then a contingent election is triggered in which each state’s delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives casts one en bloc vote to determine the president, while the vice president is decided by a vote in the U.S. Senate.
Democrats and several Republican senators have opposed the plans to challenge the electoral college results. Republican Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) issued statements on Saturday to reaffirm their support that they would back the electoral college votes that were cast for Biden.
Similarly, Senate Democrats rebuked efforts by their Republican colleagues.
“Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20th, and no publicity stunt will change that,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said in a statement.
“This pathetic, opportunistic stunt is an attack on our democracy. It’s un-American & unconscionable. Votes have been counted, recounted, certified, & all challenges totally discredited. Time to govern & get things done,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in a separate statement.
The Republican senators acknowledged in their statement on Saturday that they expect Democrats and a few Republicans to vote against them but they added that “support for election integrity should not be a partisan issue.”
“A fair and credible audit-conducted expeditiously and completed well before January 20 would dramatically improve Americans’ faith in our electoral process and would significantly enhance the legitimacy of whoever becomes our next President. We owe that to the People,” the Republican senators said.
This comes after many President Donald Trump allies called on Pence to reject electoral votes from disputed states. A judge on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and other Republicans against Pence requesting that the court grant the vice president “the exclusive authority and sole discretion in determining which electoral votes to count for a given State” on Jan. 6.
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12 Republican Senators plan to object to the scam. Just a dozen. Tells you everything you need to know about the coup, and which side is which.
Twelve Republican Senators – so far – have publicly stated their joining the statements of objections. I suspect that there are others who will also join but won’t speak out yet.
I think both sides are growing increasingly concerned about the likelihood of violence if nothing is done to consider, investigate and respond to the growing mountain of evidence of fraud and corruption during the past election. I notice that the Democratic National Committee has cancelled the inauguration parade. Do they have word of some activities not in the public view yet?
Cruz is a damned good and experienced constitutional lawyer, and his approach is following the 1876 election fight and its success in resolving the electoral disputes in that election. The formation of a commission will allow the introduction and consideration of the factual evidence which the courts have consistently refused to allow. With the exception of the one district court in PA not one of the courts petitioned to have allowed evidence to be introduced. All the cases have been dismissed on procedural grounds. This move also gives Pence, as President of the Senate, the ability to avoid making a decision on the objections himself and being accused of bias and conflict of interest.
This move by Cruz and the others supporting him serves two purposes. The first is to get the evidence before Congress and the public. The second is to allow Trump the time to pressure the six or seven state legislatures time to re-convene and reverse their selection of electors (which he apparently did Saturday on a conference call).
No matter which way the investigation turns out – for Trump or for Biden – the members of Congress will be able to say the resolution was made legally and in compliance with constitutional principles.
None of them can allow such a manifestly fraudulent election to have any standing in this “Constitutional Republic” and still say they are acting within their Oaths. Your post suggests their Oath means nothing … which I disagree with and so do many others. That aspect of “legally” is non-trivial.
“able to say”
It’s going to be a Biden/Harris communist approved administration through fraud and with the approval of most of the Washington establishment. The reset will be pushed along with agenda 21 crap. We live in a country with too many stupid people.
I’ll be shocked if Biden does anything other than approve the official elector college votes as submitted, but, then, after 2020, I’m used to being shocked.
Huh?
I don’t know if this true. Anything is possible these days.
Big test for Pence. Either hero of the American republic or shameful cuck will be his legacy.
Well taking the jab on TV should be enough of an answer for you. Come on mother fucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Legacy? Tell me who Jimmy Peanut’s VP was. Or Bush 1’s.
This belief in voting…it’s so…cute.
Just adorable.
If he ever plans on being the republican nominee for potus, he will have to act to protect the integrity of the vote.
I hope as some wish that the VP will throw out all the votes from the battleground states. His decision is final. Trump wins. People oops Marxists take to streets and start cities alight. The hammer is put down on them and the stock market crashes. But hope in one hand and S*** in the other, it will just be a dog and pony show with a two hour debate in both houses. A pox on both houses.
They can object all they want…Under the Constitution, it’s Pence’s decision and there is no appeal from it…
Thomas Jefferson himself showed the way on this issue.
Abandon all hope. The steal is just about fait accompli. The page on our illustrious society is turning.
Turn it to the Declaration of Independence then…
Trust the Plan.
ah, No.
However it’s good to see signs of spinal activity in the GOP corpse.
Moreover it is necessary if not essential for the USA Sheeple to have legitimate leaders challenging legitimately.
This is better than nothing, of itself it comes to almost but not quite nothing.
The goddamn laws have to lose their sacred patina for us to survive, the Sheeple must have their legal priesthood challenge the stolen election for the election to have been considered stolen. Again that in itself is nothing, it simply blesses what everyone already knows.
Biden will be confirmed.
We’ll see who’s still got any protest or challenge after Biden’s confirmed.
None of this does anything positive in itself, our only remaining card that will save us from extinction is to fight.
Chances of us fighting are 5%, but it’s more than nothing.