Ex-GOP Senator Jeff Flake Urges Republicans to Stand Up to Trump Ahead of Certification
On 1/6/21 at 10:59 AM EST
Former GOP Senator Jeff Flake is urging his fellow Republicans to stand up to President Donald Trump and his efforts to block the certification of the election results ahead of Congress Wednesday joint session. It is hard to comprehend how so many of my fellow Republicans were able and are still able to engage in the fantasy that they had not abruptly abandoned the principles they claimed to believe in, Flake wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in
The former senator from Arizona called on conservatives to follow in the footsteps of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whom the president asked to find 11,780 votes that would overturn the election during a phone call revealed on Sunday.
I hope Mike is going to do the right thing, said Trump. I hope so, I hope so, because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people, he told his supporters, also adding that he would never concede.
However, on Wednesday Pence told Congress that he does not believe he has the ability to unilaterally accept or reject electoral votes, breaking with Trump.
In a letter, Pence said he shares the concerns of millions of Americans about the integrity of this election.
Trump at DC Rally: ‘We Will Never Concede, We Will Not Take It Anymore’
President Donald Trump, addressing a crowd of supporters in D.C. on Wednesday, announced that he won’t concede.
“We will never concede. It doesn’t happen … we will not take it anymore. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved,” Trump said. Trump added: “We will not take it anymore … we will stop the steal.”
Trump added that some radical leftist Democrats and the “fake news media” are attempting to steal the election from him: “That’s what they’ve done and what they’re doing.”
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