December 30, 2020
GOP congressional challenges to electors would be a catastrophic tactical mistake
By Edward Davis
In his December 23 video, Dr. Steve Turley summed up two possible roads to victory for President Trump in Congress on Jan. 6, starting with a congressional challenge to disputed Biden electors:
You have to have an objection filed and endorsed by at least one US senator and one US representative. And once filed and endorsed, both chambers of Congress...have to have a debate – I believe it's stated to be a two-hour debate – over the merits and demerits of the objection, and then a simple majority is enough to overturn the electors. Now, again, that's a long shot, but then you've got Vice President Mike Pence poised to make the final decision as to whether to certify the electors after the debate.
But how is this likely to play out? An objection to electors by Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Mo Brooks, and others would be voted down in Nancy Pelosi's House and fail in the Senate, where senators such as Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse have personal vendettas against President Trump; where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has congratulated Biden and Harris on winning the election; and where Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville is being pressured by colleagues not to endorse any objection.
Making matters worse is the uneven playing field – a handful of GOP legislators versus the Democrats and the media that will be cheering them on against “conspiracy theorists†making “baseless claims.†Expect Democrats and the media to emphasize that Attorney-General Bill Barr found no evidence of fraud. They can sound very convincing to the uninformed, who are not aware of the voluminous evidence being collected by Rudy Giuliani and his team.
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