Nine weeks after the Nov. 3 presidential election, Congress will meet in joint session Wednesday to begin what is normally a short, sleepy, largely ceremonial process to count the number of electors awarded by each state to the nominees and declare the winner.
The victor President-elect Joe Biden is a foregone conclusion.
But this year, the process isn t likely to be short or sleepy, as Republican members riven by President Donald Trump s demand that they keep Biden s vote from Michigan and several other states from being tallied are forced to decide whether to remain loyal to him and object to those electors being counted or risk alienating him and his angry base by accepting the results as certified by the states.