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To: Sacajaweau

“He fulfilled his role according to the Constitution.”

He did. When a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday, they forced an emergency recess in the Congressional proceedings to officially certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. The disruption came shortly after some Republican lawmakers made the first of a planned series of highly unusual objections, based on spurious allegations of widespread voter fraud, to states’ election results. The chambers were separately debating an objection to Arizona’s results when proceedings were halted and the Capitol was locked down.

When the Senate reconvened at 8 p.m., and the House of Representatives an hour later, the proceedings — including the objection debates — continued, although some lawmakers who had previously planned to vote with the objectors stood down following the occupation of the Capitol. Plans to challenge a number of states after Arizona were scrapped, as well — but one other objection, to Pennsylvania’s results, also advanced to a vote. Here are the eight senators and 139 representatives who voted to sustain one or both objections.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

Unfortunately there were only 147 republicans of the group that voted not to certify so they were voted down. Pence, as the president of the senate, had no vote and was forced to do his job. It matters little if the objections were true or not. And you’ll notice only 8 senates voted to strike down the vote out of 100. Pence is not the problem, his hands were tied.

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51 posted on 07/20/2022 12:15:11 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: whitney69

Why write to me? I’ve been saying this all along.


53 posted on 07/20/2022 12:18:21 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: whitney69
More loser rationalization. You say his hands were tied? They were not. Neither was his mouth. He could have said F*** all of you if you think I am going to allow this fraud to go forward!"

Your move.

70 posted on 07/20/2022 2:02:38 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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