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McConnell urges GOP senators not to object to Electoral College vote
The Hill ^ | 12/15/20 03:15 PM EST | BY JORDAIN CARNEY AND ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 12/15/2020 1:25:08 PM PST by RandFan

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is urging Republicans not to object during Congress’s count and certification of the Electoral College vote next month.

McConnell’s comments were made during a caucus call on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the call, and come as House Republicans are eyeing a challenge to the results on Jan. 6 during a joint session of Congress.

A Republican senator who participated in the call said that McConnell, Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) all urged colleagues not to object to states’ electoral votes when they are received on the House floor next month.

McConnell warned that any GOP senator who signed onto a House Republican objection to a state’s electoral votes would then force the Senate to debate and vote on the objection, putting fellow GOP senators in a bad position.

The GOP leader said an objection “isn’t in the best interest of everybody.”

No Senate Republicans indicated during the call that they are currently planning to object.

“Not that I heard,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), asked if anyone indicated that they would object during the call.

Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.), the No. 3 GOP senator, added that he hasn’t “heard of any” GOP senator willing to object next month.

"I think that there was encouragement on the phone for us to accept the result, as much as it's not what we, you know, would have envisioned for the next four years, and to try to do what's best for American people, which is to look forward," said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said about the call.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) has said he will object as part of next month’s Electoral College count, and is likely to gain support from other Trump allies in the House.

But to successfully force a debate and vote on his objection he’ll need support from at least one GOP senator. That’s only happened twice since 1887, according to the Congressional Research Service.

No Republican senator has joined Brooks, though a few conservatives, including Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.), Ron Johnson (Wis.) and Rand Paul (Ky.), haven’t ruled it out.

A growing number of Senate Republicans are acknowledging President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the November election, including McConnell, who congratulated him from the Senate floor on Tuesday, one day after the Electoral College voters gathered to make their votes. Biden and McConnell had their first known conversation since the election on Tuesday.

Top Senate Republicans have also publicly pushed back against talk of trying to object to the election results next month. McConnell didn’t address the issue during a press conference on Tuesday.

Blunt, the chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, said Thune had explained to GOP senators "the futility" of objecting to any state's electoral votes next month.

Thune on Monday said the effort was “not going anywhere.”

If both a House member and senator object, the two chambers would have to meet separately, debate the issue and then have a majority in both chambers vote to uphold the objection to a state’s slate. A lawmaker has never been able to successfully throw out a state's results.

The uphill effort, members of GOP leadership warn, will only result in delaying the inevitable outcome.

“It creates a debate that has a certain outcome and that will certainly fail,” Blunt said. “I certainly don’t see any merit in that.”

Blunt, who also addressed GOP colleagues during the call, said the tallying of electoral votes during a joint session "should be very non-controversial.”

He noted that Biden dismissed objections to electoral votes when the joint session tallied the results of the 2016 election and that not a single senator signed onto an objection four years ago.

"If you view the Electoral College vote as determinative, the receiving of those votes in the joint session should be very non-controversial," he said. “I think objecting serves no purpose.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: alloverbutthecrying; electoralcollege; gop; ky; mcconnell; mitch; mitchmcconnell; realitysettingin; rinossettingin; senate; traitorssettingin; treason; trollssettingin
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I'm hoping Rand or Cruz will object..
1 posted on 12/15/2020 1:25:08 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Traitor!


2 posted on 12/15/2020 1:25:38 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: RandFan

Turtle soup is tasty.


3 posted on 12/15/2020 1:25:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Damn Traitor!


4 posted on 12/15/2020 1:26:42 PM PST by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: RandFan

The Republicans are happier than the Democrats about Trump losing.


5 posted on 12/15/2020 1:27:28 PM PST by Jim Noble (Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
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To: RandFan

How about if we object to Senator McConnell, then? We have to object to SOMEthing.


6 posted on 12/15/2020 1:27:31 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: RandFan

I bet there were people driving to the polls in GA that turned around and went home after Moribund Mitch congratulated Catatonic Joe.


7 posted on 12/15/2020 1:27:42 PM PST by Chunga85 (Where are the "non-rinos"?)
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To: RandFan

8 posted on 12/15/2020 1:27:49 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: RandFan

Be careful. This is ‘The Hill’.

Be mindful that agitprop aholes will try to spin up conservatives and set them against each other; divide and conquer.

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet; verify, verify, verify.


9 posted on 12/15/2020 1:27:52 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: RandFan

FUMM!


10 posted on 12/15/2020 1:27:58 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: RandFan

Why. It will be nothing more than a useless Political Exercise. It is time to move on to winning in GA and in 2022.


11 posted on 12/15/2020 1:28:43 PM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: RandFan

Gamera is really neat,
He’s not made of Mitchy meat,
We all love you, Gamera!

(Sorry, McConnell, thanks for all the judges, now just GO AWAY.)


12 posted on 12/15/2020 1:29:07 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Chunga85

And this turtle-faced dumbass traitor thinks he’s going to be Majority Leader in a month... just guaranteed his minority status.


13 posted on 12/15/2020 1:29:14 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: RandFan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V6btl0ASu0


14 posted on 12/15/2020 1:30:06 PM PST by BipolarBob (Money can't buy you happiness but it can buy you ammo. That's pretty much the same thing.)
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To: RandFan

This dude is a super villain, the Turtle Traitor.


15 posted on 12/15/2020 1:30:10 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: \/\/ayne

So many snakes.


16 posted on 12/15/2020 1:30:26 PM PST by FES0844
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To: RandFan

All of them (Except Brooks) are traitors if they allow this travesty to proceed!


17 posted on 12/15/2020 1:31:10 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: RandFan

One of its kind creature, the Marblemouth Post Turtle.


18 posted on 12/15/2020 1:31:11 PM PST by Old Yeller (Joe McCarthy was right.)
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To: Jim Noble
The Republicans are happier than the Democrats about Trump losing.

2020 Election couldn't have ended better for the Turtle and GOP. They wanted Trump gone as much as any Democrat.

19 posted on 12/15/2020 1:31:38 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: Hostage

Either way he’s a coward. I’ve seen no objection from him since the election, he is either blind, ignorant or complicit.


20 posted on 12/15/2020 1:33:08 PM PST by dgbrown
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