Posted on 12/27/2020 5:24:59 AM PST by RandFan
President Trump on Saturday ramped up his criticism of Senate Republicans over their unwillingness to aid his efforts to overturn the election, pressing them to “fight” before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office.
Trump called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Republicans, asserting they are doing "NOTHING" as Congress heads toward a vote early next month to certify the Electoral College results.
“If a Democrat Presidential Candidate had an Election Rigged & Stolen, with proof of such acts at a level never seen before, the Democrat Senators would consider it an act of war, and fight to the death. Mitch & the Republicans do NOTHING, just want to let it pass. NO FIGHT!” Trump tweeted.
The comment marked the latest broadside in Trump’s attempt to get at least one GOP senator to back a challenge to the Electoral College results when Congress meets to certify them on Jan. 6.
Thus far, no Republicans in the upper chamber have definitively said they will back a challenge that’s being pushed by several GOP members in the House, though Alabama Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R) has suggested he may back the challenge.
Senate Republicans are hoping to avoid a bitter fight with the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue over the Electoral College results as Trump ramps up his pressure campaign to convince Tuberville to join his House allies.
“Ultimately every senator will have to make their own decision about that but I think there will be people, yeah, reaching out him just to kind of find out” what he’s going to do, Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said of Tuberville’s intentions about the Electoral College tally.
“I’m hoping in the end that all senators will conclude that this election needs to be over with and it’s time to move on,” Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican, added.
Trump earlier in the week went after Thune while lashing out at Senate Republicans ahead of the January certification vote, suggesting that the top GOP senator would be primaried in two years.
“Republicans in the Senate so quickly forget. Right now they would be down 8 seats without my backing them in the last Election,” Trump tweeted. “RINO John Thune, ‘Mitch’s boy’, should just let it play out. South Dakota doesn’t like weakness. He will be primaried in 2022, political career over!!!”
McConnell has pressed his colleagues to stay away from the Electoral College fight, saying doing so would force a vote over swatting away the challenge that would divide the GOP with Trump.
Trump and his allies in Congress and right-leaning media have claimed without evidence that widespread fraud and electoral irregularities cost him a second term. The president has gone after individual Republicans, such as Thune, for not going along with his efforts to overturn the election.
Thune said this week that Trump’s efforts to subvert the election would “go down like a shot dog.”
The president has roped the Justice Department into his pressure campaign, saying the agency should be ashamed of itself for not backing his claims.
“The ‘Justice’ Department and the FBI have done nothing about the 2020 Presidential Election Voter Fraud, the biggest SCAM in our nation’s history, despite overwhelming evidence. They should be ashamed. History will remember. Never give up. See everyone in D.C. on January 6th,” he tweeted Saturday.
It’s enraging, because it’s not just about them fighting for Trump, it’s about them fighting to protect OUR VOTES. John James got screwed in Michigan, I have no doubt. What about him? I hate our GOP. I hate them every bit as much as I hate those who stole our votes. They are no different. I hope they burn.
The GOP is dirty like the rats thats why they are not fighting
rats do not lie like the GOP.
rats do not backstab voters like the GOP.
the GOP will be known FOREVER as the deceiving-lying
party of McConnell and Romney who
-— at the moment SCOTUS betrayed the Constitution—
backstabbed the ELECTED PRESIDENT and their voters
for their ChInESE/Ukranian wives/masters.
The GOP is finished. Their so-called base is at the Club without masks, drinking Chrystal and eating Caviar and roasted duck.
I am through with them.
The RNC needs new leadership. There has to be some conservative with the cajones to stand up to the libs.
If Trump is counting on the legislature to save his presidency say hello to President Biden.
The GOP doesn’t represent me. I am not gullible enough to believe anyone who passes the bills they do and hates Trump as much as they do could possibly represent me.
“McConnell has pressed his colleagues to stay away from the Electoral College fight, saying doing so would force a vote over swatting away the challenge that would divide the GOP with Trump.”
Despicable.
And an obviously biased article, saying there is no evidence. There couldn’t be any MORE evidence.
If Trump does not win, I will never vote again.
What would be the point?
The RNC needs to be gone. We need a new Political Party that will do what the base wants done. We already have 75m members plus the Tea Party and a lot of RATS who have had enough. The RNC needs to go. They’re much, much worse than the RATS.
“The GOP is finished.”
And if they don’t believe it, they should look at Fox’s ratings.
Stab conservatives in the back, and we remember.
I’m a Trumpian and always will be. The GOP left me.
If Trump thinks that the Republicans in Congress are going to preserve his win by overriding the electoral votes on Wednesday then he is going to be badly disappointed. It was clear that the votes weren’t there last week, and the veto of the Defense Bill and the imminent veto of the COVID and government funding bill has just added to those who won’t vote to support the President.
Can these GOPe tools possible believe we’re going to come back to them once Trump is out of the way?!? Treasonous collaborators!!
This has been stated multiple times on these boards:
If the Republicans fail our President, the Republican Party is deader’n a door nail.
Dead.
Dead.
Dead.
The Big Steal is BIPARTISAN.
Not one of them will stand with us or our President.
“The Big Steal is BIPARTISAN.”
No doubt about it. Criminals on both sides of the aisle, who have plenty to hide
Can these GOPe tools possible believe we’re going to come back to them once Trump is out of the way?!? Treasonous collaborators!!
They don’t care. They just want Trump and MAGA to lose. They’re happy to be in the minority while the Dems hold the WH & COngress.
The eGOP could have already stopped this but they are complicit.
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