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GOP challenges Arizona electoral votes, the first of several expected objections to Biden’s 2020 win
Congressional Republicans began a futile attempt Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s behalf to overturn the results of the November election by objecting to Electoral College votes cast by Arizona for President-elect Joe Biden.
House and Senate Republicans formally objected to Arizona’s votes soon after the joint session of Congress got underway on Wednesday, prompting the two chambers to split up to separately debate and vote on the objection.
GOP objections to at least two other state results are expected later Wednesday.
The push is destined to fail, with Democrats and a significant number of Republicans planning to vote down all of the objections in both the House and the Senate, criticizing the effort both as a hopeless attempt to reverse the election outcome and as a threat to democracy that would subvert the will of the voters.
Cornyn won t join Cruz in refusing to certify election results. Trump is not happy.
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Sen. John Cornyn has drawn the attention of President Donald Trump on Twitter.
Earlier, Cornyn said he would not join Sen. Ted Cruz and 10 Republican senators in their refusal to certify the presidential election results unless they are audited. Cruz and his allies have repeated baseless claims of unprecedented election fraud, the Houston Chronicle s Washington correspondent Benjamin Wermund reports.
Cornyn on Tuesday wrote a letter to Texans saying he would not object to the results unless “substantial, new evidence is presented” to Congress.
“Over these past two months, I have paid close attention to the legal challenges and recounts that have taken place across the country,” Cornyn wrote in a letter to Texans. “Every lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign has failed to change the outcome. And multiple states have conducted recounts to confirm the results in Geor