Updated: 6:40 p.m.
A growing number of Republican lawmakers are joining President Donald Trump s extraordinary effort to overturn the election, pledging to reject the results when Congress meets next week to count the Electoral College votes and certify President-elect Joe Biden s win.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Saturday announced a coalition of 11 senators and senators-elect who have been enlisted for Trump s effort to subvert the will of American voters.
This follows the declaration from Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who was the first to buck Senate leadership by saying he would join with House Republicans in objecting to the state tallies during Wednesday s joint session of Congress.
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Gohmert Says Courts are Risking ‘Riots and Violence in the Streets’ by Failing to Hear Pro-Trump Election Cases Colin Kalmbacher
Representative
Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) warned of property destruction and actual violence overtaking the country’s thoroughfares during a late Friday evening appearance on a conservative media channel.
Jeremy Kernodle–who was appointed by President
Donald Trump in 2018–rejected a lawsuit filed by Gohmert and a slate of purported (read: unofficial or fake) pro-Trump electors against Vice President
Mike Pence. That lawsuit, a long shot affair, asserted that Pence had the constitutional power to ignore the Electoral College system’s actual results and essentially gift the 45th president a second term despite the November 2020 election.
President Donald Trump has refused to concede he lost the election to Joe Biden. Trump’s Republican allies have launched a long-shot bid to overturn the loss.
Cortney wrote about the lawsuit Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) filed this week against Vice President Mike Pence over the 2020 election. It basically would have granted the vice president the