Posted on 01/06/2021 7:17:55 AM PST by RummyChick
Donald Trump's extraordinary crusade to overturn the presidential election will come to a head on Wednesday as Congress meets to certify Joe Biden's Electoral College victory at a joint session led by Vice President Mike Pence.
The typically routine proceeding will be anything but, as a group of 13 rogue Republican senators led by Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley plan to file objections when the alphabetical vote roll-call reaches the battleground state of Arizona.
The longshot effort is all but certain to fail, defeated by bipartisan majorities in Congress prepared to accept Biden's 306 to 232 electoral victory over Trump.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to make a last-ditch effort to dissuade members of his party from following through with their doomed plot when he delivers a speech early in the day.
Sources familiar with McConnell's plans told Axios his speech will center around his fear that the objections will tear his party apart by forcing Republicans to choose between upholding democracy and alienating a hugely influential GOP figure in Trump.
Meanwhile Trump has placed his hopes on Pence, furiously claiming that the vice president could single-handedly overturn the election results during Wednesday's proceedings - and denying a report that Pence had told him that wasn't possible.
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Cowards in the Senate,
Cowards in the Judiciary,
Who will stand?
Is Mitch blind to the many many Trump supporters marching in DC today?
Oh, please DO this, Turtle. Please.
All he needed to actually do was rubber stamp Trump’s $1,400 payments. He refused. The Dems rans $80 million in ads blasting him for it and promising “immediate” passage if they were elected. Nice job, Mitch. Time to step aside.
Eff Bitch. Trump is the party.
This is not about the president nor the party. It’s about saving our election process. Without it we are a dead nation walking.
Shows McConnell's true colors: either save the GOPe or save the USA. He chooses the GOPe.
LOL.
See: SEA ISLAND
Mitch McConnell clearly has a political death wish — not just for his political life, but for the life of the Republican Party and for our Constitutional Republic. I just don’t understand it.
Without Trump, there IS no party.
He better not make this speech, because he’s going to literally anger to the point of them feeling like there is no other options, the entire Conservative populace in the US.
It can only be called treason. Nothing else.
The party doesn’t matter at all. Not at all. The CONSTITUTION, however, and the vouchsafing of our elections as a truly viable way for individual citizens to express their will DOES matter.
This guy is a traitor. Nothing more.
You’re smokin crack Bich!
Your party is dead Mitch.
Mitch, your party is over. Anybody who continues to support Republicans in anyway is a fool. They abandoned the nation and their members, we must now do the same to them. I stated before, we were foolish to use “conventional methods” in politics. Want your nation back, you now have to get dirty and take it.
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