by TYLER DURDEN
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is leading a group of 11 Senators who plan to object to certifying state Electoral College votes on Wednesday.
The group, which includes Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Senators-Elect Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), are also calling for the resurrection of an Electoral Commission to conduct an emergency audit of the results.
According to Axios, the move pits the group of GOP Senators against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had ‘hoped to avoid the spectacle of his party leading a last-ditch effort to prevent Joe Biden from being declared the 2020 election winner.’
The move comes after Sen. Josh Howley (R-MO) said that he would raise a general objection.
“Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed,” the eleven Senators said in a statement.
- The group noted a similar commission – made of five representatives, five senators and five Supreme Court justices – reviewed allegations of fraud in the 1876 election.
- “Accordingly, we intend to vote on Jan. 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.” -Axios
Notably, Democrats have raised similar election challenges in the past.
The last three times a Republican has been elected president — Trump in 2016 and George W. Bush in both 2000 and 2004 — Democrats in the House have brought objections to the electoral votes in states the GOP nominee won. In early 2005 specifically, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., along with Rep. Stephanie Tubbs, D-Ohio, objected to Bush’s 2004 electoral votes in Ohio. -PJ Media
See below for the full text of a joint statement from the Cruz-led coalition:
Initially, no one wanted to get near an accusation of voter fraud. Then, more and more true, hard, solid evidence poured in. Now, representatives are taking notice and realizing not only was the fraud real and widespread, but it is their DUTY to find out if there was enough to turn the outcome of the election.
There were very credible accusations from the very beginning; November 4th. It’s been building ever since and, making it worse, Democrats had no interest in answering the questions, just ending them. The more they denied, the more suspicious the election looked. Now, close to a majority of Americans believe there was fraud, but the Democrats just want to shut it up. Why?
Had the accusations been investigated, perhaps we’d know the answers already. As it is, the suspicions of fraud are just more acute. Once again, when given the opportunity, Democrats fail to lead.
Go Ted go!
Interesting photo. How is it no one has yet noticed that Ted Cruz has been slowly transforming into a werewolf?
@Greg: Dont talk so goofy or the Constitutional Zodiac killer might get ya! I see a bad moon arising Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we’re in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye.
January 20th will come and the nation and the world will move on, with most people hoping for much better days ahead.
I might consider Photoshopping some canine fangs onto that Ted Cruz photo. Maybe he’s going to try out for a part in a new Wolverine movie?
@Greg: Just like the Democrat party has been transformed into a crime syndicate.
People that respect the rule of law and the Constitution will not just “move on”. Anyone hoping for “better days” under that bumbling, lying, corrupt idiot Biden probably thinks there was no fraud in the election. In other words… morons.
@Greg:
No, no they won’t. 74 million Americans have been cheated, and that’s going to have consequences for the new Communist Democrat Party.
Higher taxes, racial segregation, China-corruption, and simple Marxist ideals.
None of those lead to better days. Real Americans will fight back.
Seems they are doing drive bys on Pulizers team in Atlanta, bullets going through one members daughter bedroom window.
They are panicking knowing they have much to hide.
@Nathan Blue, #7:
They have been cheated. They’ve had their pockets cleverly picked for 4 years, but haven’t yet figured that out. As it is with all skilled pickpockets, the victims don’t notice that their money has gone missing until sometime after the crime has been committed.
From The Balance:
Once again, there has been an enormous transfer of wealth to the top, paid for with a massive increase in our collective debt.
Which side of that arrangement do you think will most effect the average Trump voter over the next 10 years?
(* Over $7.1 trillion was added to the debt over Trump’s single term of office. During Obama’s first term, beginning with an economy that had crashed through the floorboards, $4.8 trillion was added to the debt. A total of around $8.6 trillion was added during Obama’s entire 8 years, which ended with 75 consecutive months of job growth.)
@Greg:
That is a blatant damn lie.
The Obama administration assumed a national debt of $10,024,724,896,192.49 on
December 31, 2008. By December 31 of 2012, that debt had reached $16,066,241,407,385.89, an increase of $6,041,516,511,193.40. Six is 60% of 10, moron.
Now, perhaps you are just not good with numbers, Comrade Greggie, but that equates to a 60 percent increase in debt in Obama’s first four years.
The laughable thing about your erroneous post is that during the entire reign of Obama, you never complained about the rapid increasing of the national debt.
You are such a hypocrite.
Obama didn’t assume office until January 20, 2009, Sherlock.
By the way, where are you getting your numbers? Under Stevie Mnuchin, the Treasury’s daily Debt to the Penny record and application have been chopped up, scattered around, and archived in a way that makes it difficult to find pre-Donald data. Previously you could pull up the data for any specific day desired through one easily navigable page. Why do you suppose that was done? I have a theory. It wasn’t done for the sake of transparency.
Has it crossed your mind that any comparison of the percentage of increase during one administration to that of another is inherently deceptive, owing to the fact that the total debt has steadily increased over time? Later administrations can run up the debt by more total dollars than an earlier one, but the percentage of the increase might be lower because it’s being calculated as part of a greater cumulative total.
For example, the 100 percent increase of a one trillion dollar debt isn’t anywhere near as bad as a 50 percent increase of a ten trillion dollar debt. The 50 percent increase is five times more in actual dollars than the 100 percent increase.
@Greg:
No shit, Red Rider.
Where are you getting yours because by any stretch of the imagination, Obama increased the national debt by 60 percent, not less than 36 percent, in his first four years. And you were quiet as a mouse about his rabid spending during that time.
No shit! Really?
You’re an idiot.
I’m not the one who got their numbers from Polidiotic. I got mine from The Balance—given that Stevie has blown up the Treasury’s very useful Debt to the Penny feature.
Note that The Balance properly attributes to each president the debt that was incurred as a result of budget measures enacted during that president’s term of office. The first budget Obama had anything to do with as President was actually for Fiscal Year 2010, enacted in 2009. So it is with every president.
@Greg:
No surprise that you now move the goal posts. It’s what you on the left do. You did not mention “budget measures enacted during that president’s term of office” in your initial blatherings. So now the goal post is moved. Got it.
I don’t really blame any president for the national debt since it is Congress that actually funds the budget. This year’s budget is a national disgrace, thanks to Nancy Pelosi.
You’re still and idiot that never EVER complained about the national debt during the reign of Obama. You continually complain about the bad economy Obama “inherited” but never once do you mention that our economic system was virtually shut down due to the damn Chinese that you seem to make excuses for.
Nobody “moved the goal posts”. The first budget that any president signs always takes effect with the second year that president is in office. Biden’s first year budget was signed by Donald Trump on December 27th.
@Greg:
Yes, you DO move the goal posts. It’s what you do, Comrade Greggie.
That doesn’t eliminate the fact that you are an idiot who can only parrot whatever the left wing tells you to parrot.
Why do you not blame China for the Chi-Com flu? Or is that another question you will refuse to answer?
BTW, your website that you reference as a source is blatantly anti-Trump. No surprise.
@Greg:
Oh, please, cheat me some more. I don’t think I could survive all the benefits of another Obama-style regime. You know, higher health care costs (when we were promised a $2500 a year savings), higher taxes (when we were promised no new taxes), rising crime, rising racial tensions, more illegal immigrants, more illegal immigrant CRIME, more terrorism. Oh, by all means, give us ore of that “cheating and pocket picking”.
I guess, once again, you turn a blind eye to the debt incurred due to the CCP (Biden’s business partners) virus we received. You’ve also ignored how Pelosi and the Democrats hold aid and relief hostage until they get their billions of dollars of wasteful pork. The House (Pelosi) proposes spending and the Republican majority in the Senate is not enough to overcome Democrat (Schumer) objections.
Meanwhile, Obama added $10 trillion to the debt with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. He ran up $10 trillion in debt without addressing infrastructure or maintaining the military. Trump restored the economy and brought back good-paying jobs. Obama did NOTHING.