GOP leaders silent on Trump's claims that VP could overturn elections

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former President Trump drew howls from critics in both parties for endorsing the notion this weekend that vice presidents should - and do - have the authority to overturn election results.

But the response from GOP leaders on Capitol Hill has been something else entirely: silence.

Republican leaders remained mute on Monday as the outcry grew louder over Trump's bid to empower vice presidents to reject electoral votes certified by the states.

In a statement Sunday evening, he hammered Mike Pence's handling of that process in January of last year, shortly after President Biden's 2020 victory, lamenting that his former vice president "could have overturned the Election" but simply opted not to.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-leaders-silent-on-trumps-claims-that-vp-could-overturn-elections/ar-AATmbMI

[Ocelot II]

1. I love it. It means VP Harris could overturn the 2024 election if Trump claims he won.

[Mr. Ected]

2. So, how many reporters have asked GOP leaders the question

And how many of them responded in silence?

Or is the question even being asked?

[gratuitous]

9. Stole my post nearly verbatim

Have any of the bulldogs of the Fourth Estate even asked elected Republicans whether they agree or disagree with the former guy's hare-brained assertion?

[Mr. Ected]

10. Exactly. Seems the GOP has no problem getting to the reporters to advance their own agendas

But the reporters don't seem to have the backbone to bring it all back to the most important issue of our times.

At least, this is my impression. Certainly the Republicans dodge the question they're asked but I don't see any fortitude among the media in pinning them down. It makes sense. The GOP is currently composed of 2 separate factions quietly battling it out behind closed doors. They don't want us to see them in disarray.

But at some point, soon, the American people have to know what side of the Big Lie the individual Congressmen and candidates fall under. Big Lie candidates are fascists and need to be removed from the equation. We deserve to know what we're dealing with.

[DFW]

3. Trump is so far gone

It wouldn’t surprise me to hear him claim he won in 2024, even if he didn’t even run as a candidate of any party. He can declare, without one shred of evidence (what else is new?), that he was a write-in favorite in every state, and 25 million people in our country will believe it, and demand his inauguration.

[lagomorph777]

4. OK.

Next time it's Kamala's turn.

[DFW]

5. Trump is so far gone

It wouldn’t surprise me to hear him claim he won in 2024, even if he didn’t even run as a candidate of any party. He can declare, without one shred of evidence (what else is new?), that he was a write-in favorite in every state, and 25 million people in our country will believe it, and demand his inauguration. If he is not given one in Washington, he’ll hold it in Oklahoma, or some such place, find some judge he appointed to swear him in, and at least a third of the Republicans in Congress will attend.

This is all assuming he is both alive and compos mentis, neither of which is a sure thing three years out.

[XanaDUer2]

7. This could happen nt

[niyad]

11. He is not compos mentis now. I truly hope he strokes out. NOW!

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Silence from the GOP...why am I not surprised. I was thinking at first that perhaps they're

embarrassed at such a dumb suggestion at this blatantly unconstitutional ploy, and that the current GOP leadership is embarrassed at rump's suggestion, but then I realized that so many of the GOP reps are obviously totally unaware of what the Constitution and its Amendments really say. Even when so many of them are supposedly 'attorneys', who should know the law.

[spanone]

8. The entire republican party is 1000% complicit with trump

[monkeyman1]

12. roflmfao-- republican taliban is so jacked up !!!