Please stop posting that crap about the 93-7 certification vote. It was a meaningless formality. The best approach and most astute points I saw from any U.S. Senator was from a guy who was one of the 93: Tom Cotton.
He understood the whole fiasco but had one key condition to be met before he would support an objection to the electoral votes of any state: He asked for a statement in support of the objection from a person or governing body from that state who was legally authorized to make a formal representation on behalf of that state. This could have come from a governor, a legislature, a state attorney general, or anyone else.
THERE WERE NONE.
Absolutely not. The facts bear me out. There were “none” precisely because national Republicans were not lighting rockets off on state Republicans to uphold the oaths they swore to provide fair elections. I find it quite telling Pence was not on the leaked call with the GA GOP and the SECRETARY OF STATE was. What’s up with THAT?
This was an entirely predictable two month long game of hot potato between the swamp and state GOP to certify the stolen election. No mainline GOP stakeholders were interested in supporting POTUS and MAGA. They preferred Biden and got him. It’s that simple.
Prudent U.S. Senators who have highly respect the U.S. Constitution (Tom Cotton and Rand Paul come to mind) had one simple request. To paraphrase: "I am willing to contest the electoral votes from Pennsylvania (for example) if a person or governing body with the legal authority to represent the state government of Pennsylvania notifies me that they are contesting the state's electoral votes, I'll vote to reject the electoral votes that were certified in December."
Without this formal notification, Cotton correctly pointed out that any Senator who rejected a state's CERTIFIED electoral votes would basically be turning the U.S. government into a parliamentary government where the President is elected by the legislature instead of elected as a separate branch of government. Giving a Senator or House member from one state the authority to reject the electoral votes from another state in the absence of a competing slate of electors sent by that state would be an absolute disaster.
If you think I'm kidding, just look ahead to 2024 and see how this would play out. With the Democrats in control of the House and Senate (if this remains the case), you'd have Chuck Schumer leading a bunch of assholes in the Senate to reject the electoral votes even from states like Wyoming and the Dakotas that vote for the Republican candidate by wide margins.