"If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever." "Voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken - they've all spoken," he said. who will lose that post after Biden takes office and two new Democratic senators from Georgia are sworn in - warned of lasting damage caused by members of his own party. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. "What happened here today was an insurrection incited by the president of the United States."
Mitt Romney, R-Utah, in a speech that seemed aimed at the history books. "We gather due to a selfish man's injured pride and the outrage of supporters who he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning," said Sen. Though the group of die-hard Trump loyalists in Congress went ahead with their scheme to throw out millions of legal votes, the vast majority of speakers from both parties trashed the plot and the riot that it sparked. Hawley, the first senator to announce he would object to the results, "had blood on his hands," the Kansas City Star editorial board wrote in a blistering op-ed on Wednesday, arguing that no one except Trump himself was "more responsible" for the Capitol riot. House Republicans also tried to object to the results in Georgia, Michigan and Nevada but no senator backed their challenge.
The Senate soundly rejected the Pennsylvania challenge without debate while 138 House Republicans voted to disenfranchise millions of the state's voters. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., spoke during the debate on Arizona and later signed on to an objection to Pennsylvania's results but declined to speak. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joined 121 House Republicans to lead the Arizona challenge. Republicans initially planned to challenge the results in at least five states but ultimately raised objections to electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania, which were overwhelmingly defeated. Some of the Republican senators who planned to object to the Electoral College results changed their minds after Wednesday's mayhem but more than 140 Republicans, including seven senators, went ahead with their objections. Many lawmakers at the joint session directly blamed Trump for stoking Wednesday's violence, with more than three dozen Democrats calling for his impeachment while others called on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!" "I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. "Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th," he said. Trump, who is temporarily locked out of his social media accounts for his role in stoking Wednesday's riot with fraudulent claims of election rigging, issued a statement minutes later through White House aide Dan Scavino's Twitter account.
0 kommentar(er)
