Posted on 12/21/2020 11:24:08 PM PST by RandFan
Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican, warned on Monday that efforts to challenge the Electoral College vote in Congress next month would fall short in the Senate.
The GOP senator — who has publicly and privately pushed back against the effort being led by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) — argued that it would be futile to force both chambers to vote on an objection to the Electoral College vote that is "not going anywhere."
"I mean, in the Senate, it would ... go down like a shot dog," Thune told reporters. "I just don't think it makes a lot of sense to put everybody through this when you know what the ultimate outcome is going to be."
His comments come after a group of House conservatives met with President Trump and Vice President Pence on Monday at the White House to strategize on the effort to challenge the Electoral College votes when Congress formally convenes to count and certify the votes next month.
"Big meeting today with @realDonaldTrump, @VP, the President's legal team, @freedomcaucus and other Members of Congress. I will lead an objection to Georgia's electors on Jan 6. The courts refuse to hear the President's legal case. We're going to make sure the People can!" Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) tweeted about the meeting.
Brooks has said he's spoken with Senate Republicans who are receptive to his plan, though none have said they plan to object. Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has said he's considering it, something that earned him public praise from Trump. A group of 2024 hopefuls is also being watched closely.
Thune said on Monday that he didn't know of a GOP senator, or an incoming GOP senator, who had committed to challenging the election results on Jan. 6.
"I don't know where they're getting that. I've seen public statements from a couple of Republicans, incoming Republicans, but I don't know that anyone is committed to doing it," he said when a reporter noted that House Republicans claim that a senator supports their effort.
The push by Brooks and others to use Congress's vote to prolong the election fight has put a spotlight on divisions between House and Senate Republicans, who have made it clear they are ready to move on.
Thune, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of GOP leadership and the Senate Rules Committee chairman, used a private caucus call last week to warn members of the caucus against challenging the results on Jan. 6.
Several House Republicans have said they are backing Brooks's effort, 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.
If both a House member and a 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.
Thune is a woos. This clown has done nothing in the senate but stroke his ego.....
what is the remedy thune?....what is the remedy....if you guys don’t do it, then I want martial law, secure the voting machines and determine the rightful president of TUSA....
Miserable b*****ds!!!
Hope newly-elected Senator Tommy Tuberville can whip his new colleagues into shape and form a successful alliance with fellow Alabamian Mo Brooks to make history!!!
We cannot count on Congress or the courts to bring justice. Seize the machines, and make the results VERY public.
Then declare this a coup.
Time to choose sides, and fight.
Sucks to be them.
Let’s go to Thune’s house and steal everything in sight...and then say, “Aw c’mon man. It don’t make sense to want justice.”
Thune, who’d happily surrender then bend over and spread it if the ccp told him to.
While berating the rest of us for not surrendering with him.
{Time to choose sides, and fight.}
I’m on President Trump’s side and I pray that on January 6th, whatever necessary action is taken to halt this coup and save our fragile Republic!!!
Unbelievable. We found yet another RINO. SD voters need to get on his a$$.
He got 71.8% - but if he gets dinged a good quarter or third of his base not turning out for a rigged election, even that percent is iffy...
“ what is the remedy thune?..”
His reply is, “remedy for what?”
He sees no problem that needs remedying, and he’s looking forward to Trump being gone. And to working with Biden and Harris.
This is your Republican Party, people.
“ Pretty boy Thune is such a pansy. ”
No, he’s not a pansy. He’s anti-Trump. He wants Trump gone and he’s taking a strong public role to make sure that happens.
I stand corrected. :)
What’s the saying again:
Surrender monkeys, the fix is in.
There is no “moving on” from a stolen presidential election putting communists in power in America.
There is only angry and violent division and civil war. There will be blood.
We found yet another RINO
No he’s not a RINO. He’s one of the top leaders of the Republican Party in Congress. He represents what the Republican Party institutionally is all about. If you disagree with Thune and the rest of the party establishment and leadership , then it’s you who’s the RINO, because they’re the real Republicans. Trump is a RINO because he’s nothing like the Republican leaders.
Like Toomey, in PA, he rode the coattails of the Tea Party in to office and then stabbed us in the back.
“ There is no “moving on” from a stolen presidential election “
On the contrary, the Republican Party is eager to move on because they’re glad Trump lost - and if it took fraud to send him packing they’re ok with that. The end was important enough that they’ll approve any means.
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