House Republicans meet with Trump to discuss overturning election results [View all]
Source: Politico.com
President Donald Trump huddled with a group of congressional Republicans at the White House on Monday, where they strategized over a last-ditch effort to overturn the election results next month, according to several members who attended the meeting.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) — who is spearheading the long-shot push to overturn the election results in Congress — organized the trio of White House meetings, which lasted over three hours and included roughly a dozen lawmakers. The group also met with Vice President Mike Pence, who will be presiding over the joint session of Congress when lawmakers officially certify the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, as well as members of Trump’s legal team.
“It was a back-and-forth concerning the planning and strategy for January the 6th,” Brooks said in a phone interview.
In addition to the “dozens” of House Republicans who are committed to objecting to the election results, Brooks said there are “multiple” Senate Republicans who are now receptive to the effort, though he declined to name names. Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), whom Trump has repeatedly praised on Twitter recently, has said he is considering the idea. "More and more congressmen and senators are being persuaded that the election was stolen,” Brooks said, who claimed that momentum for the effort is growing.
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If people (including President Carter) deem Trump as an illegitimate president because of Russian interference in the 2016 election, what is going to be said about a presidency gained by using every dirty trick in the book. Sure, his base will support him, but what about the overwhelming majority of us who voted for Biden? How do we cut the balls off a person who has not been duly elected?
I have faith that on January 20 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take their oaths of office. I just can't believe the rigmarole Trump and his enablers -- especially the Repugs in the House and Senate -- are putting this country through because of Trump's ego and the multi-million dollar con Fat Donnie is running to get his base to stuff his pockets with more cash.
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