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A group of GOP senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will object to the Jan. 6 certification of the presidential election results next week unless there is an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission. Cruz and the other senators claim the Nov. 3 election "featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud and illegal conduct." Joining Cruz are Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; James Lankford, R-Okla.; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; John Kennedy, R-La.; Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and ...

Trump Team: Voters Should Call State Legislatures for Special Sessions to Decertify President Donald Trump’s campaign has been pressing voters to call their state legislatures to conduct an emergency special session on voter fraud. Over the past several days, the team urged people to contact Georgia House Speaker David Ralston and Georgia, Senate Majority Leader Mike Dugan to “demand a vote on decertification” of the state’s Electoral College votes. The Trump Team Twitter account also ...

Pence May Choose 2020 Election Winner ‘As He Sees Fit,’ GOP Rep Says in New Court Filing Vice President Mike Pence has the ability to overrule the Electoral College vote and can essentially decide the outcome of the presidential election, said Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), coming after Department of Justice lawyers argued Pence is not the proper defendant in the suit. The DOJ’s lawyers, representing Pence, argued that Gohmert should be filing a lawsuit against Congress, not Pence’s offi...

December 31, 2020 3:30 pm by ismaila.chafe SPEECH BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI AT THE SIGNING OF THE 2021 APPROPRIATION BILL AND THE 2020 FINANCE BILL INTO LAW ON THURSDAY DECEMBER 31, 2020 AT COUNCIL CHAMBERS, PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ABUJA. It gives me great pleasure today to sign the 2021 Appropriation Bill and the enabling 2020 Finance Bill into law. I would like to appreciate the National Assembly, and in particular, thank the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and i...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO.) doubled down on objecting to electoral college votes on Jan. 6 despite pressure from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Rep-Elect on Trump’s Electoral College: ‘No Question in My Mind’ Trump Won Rep.-elect Burgess Owens (R-Utah) said he will support a challenge to the Electoral College vote, saying there is “no question” President Donald Trump won. Owens, a former NFL player endorsed by Trump, told the Salt Lake Tribune that he “absolutely” believes Trump won the election: “There’s no question in my mind that I think he won.” That’s why he said he is joining the effort to challenge the vot...

“Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, wrote “thank you” to Toomey on Twitter and Facebook.” …Philadelphia Inquirer December 8, 2020 “Urges the United States Congress to declare the selection of presidential electors in this Commonwealth to be in dispute.”  PA House Resolution 1094 “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of m...

House Asks Court to Dismiss Effort to Clarify Vice President’s Power in Electoral Counting The House of Representatives is asking a court to reject a petition from Republicans that requests judges to say Vice President Mike Pence has the authority to reject some electoral votes. “This Court should reject plaintiffs’ effort to overturn Congress’s centuries-old role in counting electoral votes and resolving disputes about them in the constitutionally mandated Joint Session,” the House s...

“Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, wrote “thank you” to Toomey on Twitter and Facebook.” …Philadelphia Inquirer December 8, 2020 “Urges the United States Congress to declare the selection of presidential electors in this Commonwealth to be in dispute.”  PA House Resolution 1094 “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of m...

“Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, wrote “thank you” to Toomey on Twitter and Facebook.” …Philadelphia Inquirer December 8, 2020 “Urges the United States Congress to declare the selection of presidential electors in this Commonwealth to be in dispute.”  PA House Resolution 1094 “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of m...