Posted on 01/06/2021 2:58:17 PM PST by RandFan
@RandPaul
This is the speech I'll be giving today from an undisclosed location.
I wrote a speech today.
I was planning to say I fear the chaos of establishing a precedent that Congress can overturn elections.
Boy, was I right.
Chaos. Anarchy. It’s wrong and un-American.
The vote we are about to cast is important.
Now more than ever.
The question is: Should Congress override the certified results from the states and nullify the states’ right to conduct elections?
The vote today is not a protest; the vote today is literally to overturn the election!
Voting to overturn state-certified elections would be the opposite of what states’ rights Republicans have always advocated for.
This would doom the electoral college forever.
It was never intended by our founders that Congress have the power to overturn state-certified elections.
My oath to the Constitution doesn’t allow me to disobey the law. I cannot vote to overturn the verdict of the states.
Such a vote would be to overturn everything held dear by those of us who support the rights of states in this great system of federalism bequeathed to us by our founders.
The electoral college was created to devolve the power of selecting presidential electors to the states.
The electoral college is, without question, an inseparable friend to those who believe that every American across our vast country deserves to be heard.
If Congress were given the power to overturn the states’ elections . . . what terrible chaos would ensue.
Imagine the furor against the electoral college if Congress becomes a forum to overturn states’ electoral college slates.
It is one thing to be angry. It is another to focus one’s anger in a constructive way. That hasn’t happened today, to say the least. We simply cannot destroy the Constitution, our laws, and the electoral college in the process.
I hope as the nation’s anger cools, we can channel that energy into essential electoral reforms in every state.
America is admired around the world for our free elections. We must, we absolutely must, fix this mess and restore confidence and integrity to our elections.
No valid vote no representation no democracy.
And now they try to hide behind the constitution.
Today didn’t happen by accident but it sure needed to happen.
Notice that not a one of them addresses the blatantly obvious Vote Fraud issues in those states. Not one speaks to the THOUSAND plus Certified Testimony of all those witnesses to the fraud. Nor, do they address the data analysis of the blatant fraud evidenced by examining the data.
SCOTUS refused to fix the illegal changes PA and GA made, and actively blocked any State's ability to verify a voter's identity.
So it is therefore IMPOSSIBLE to hold "Free and Fair" elections under our current system.
Amazing how fast they all jumped to the conclusion that the chaos was caused by Trump supporters.
We don’t need to be lectured by you Rand, your disloyalty and immediate acceptance that it was not a false flag operation is duel noted.
Please don’t expect any of us to vote republican.
I think his position is that the states have the final say on the electors and they haven’t sent alternatives (as i understand it)
No mention of what stealing a nation election would cause?
It was going to get ugly and now it is. This was the greatest day ever until the secret service freaked out at the Antifa Thugs.
SUBMISSION to TYRANNY
EXTREME VIOLENCE
choose one
Rand’s leftist neighbor literally beat the spine right out of him. What a weak little twat.
He has been spewing about the “huge amount of fraud,” then takes the cowards way out. Hey Rand, if we can’t trust states to conduct their elections legally, why are states even bound by the constitution? Every state for itself.
For a rubber stamp, I think Congress is grossly overpaid.
I will do it for half and I will bring my own stamp.
Has the count been frozen?
Does this idiot understand that no one was asking them to overthrow an election, but to follow the constitution and ask the contested states legislatures to reassess, certify and resubmit the electors for their state?
We must, we absolutely must, fix this mess and restore confidence and integrity to our elections.
If you certify a fraud and an unconstitutional election and then promise to “fix it next time” how have you upheld the constitution?
I generally like Paul and even appreciate that he tried to explain himself, but the constitution mattered in November just as much as it does here in January.
major garrett said something that I actually do agree with in a sense
The people that were objecting were using procedural blanks...in essence...meaning they knew it had no power and were just doing it for show....
someone saying right now certain GOP wont wear masks while they are grouped together and saying she is at a super spreader event
Sitting out won’t work.
They won’t care.
After Trump, they won’t allow anyone to run who will get in their way.
We’ll have to find other ways of going after Deep State.
340 million guns in the hands of the citizenry.
The political class needs to leave the country.
No taxation without representation!"
The election certified by many states were “Stolen” by Election FRAUD.
Period.
Will we never have an honest election again?
Is the Republic Dead?
Has it really been Dead for 20 years and nobody would admit it?
Have the Congress sold out our nation 30 years ago and hid it, because what they did was a crime they could execute them for?
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