National Republicans are desperate to avoid a floor fight in Congress over the certification of the Electoral College vote next month, believing it would be horrible politics to continue waging what most recognize to be a hopeless battle to overturn the outcome of the election.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has intervened, asking his members not to join Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) or any other House members looking to object to the results on Jan. 6, when Congress meets to certify the Electoral College count.
President Trump is waging a pressure campaign to get senators to revolt. Incoming Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who will be sworn in Jan. 3, has said he’ll join the floor fight and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has said he believes the election was “stolen” from Trump, is always a wild card.
Republican strategists are hoping McConnell can squash the insurgency, believing the debate over Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the 2020 election is tearing the party apart ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia that will determine the balance of power in the Senate.
They say it’s bad for the GOP’s efforts to win back swing suburban voters if the party is associated with erratic flamethrowers, such as pro-Trump attorneys Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and Rudy Giuliani.
And after an election in which the GOP became more diverse, Republican strategists are furious over the harm they say is being done with Black voters, as the Trump campaign seeks to have the vote totals thrown out in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit and elsewhere.
“The outcome of any floor fight will be the same outcome as the Electoral College vote and all of those court cases the campaign has already lost, so it’s smarter to look forward to 2022 and the Georgia runoff and other races we can win, rather than races that we can’t,” said one well-connected Republican.
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No, its just you cannot expect much from McConnel. He seems ethically impotent politically, and has been for years. If compelled to justify why he occupies his Senate seat, I'll bet he would be at a loss except for the comfortable ass groove he has made in it.
Thank God in his Heavens that a Legislative Presidential Electoral vote would occur in the House (I hope).
You nailed it!👍😂
thanks, Brooklyn
Ultimately though, a crowd drawer and pleaser like Trump ought to be fully supported, even for the most self-serving reasons. But.........
The doofus country club GOP has concluded the Nation has no chance of being worth a rats ass again (in their eyes), so why not sit back, get securely comfortable, and fleece the Nation until it finally collapses from attack and neglect.
You have read calls for the guillotines use on this site.
The Pillsbury Doughboy is one of my prime candidates for the national razor.
Less than two weeks ago this "Tower of Fortitude" was posing with the President in a photo-op.
Disgusting.
way to go Marlene
So sad to be able to read "Least of all, it appears is OUR FREEDOM" and not be able to say that you're fear mongering. I was explaining progressivism to my kids and said not too long ago that we are probably 3 or 4 election cycles away from becoming a socialist country. That was before all of this happened… who thinks we’ll make it that long now?
Time for all Republicans Senators to stand up for America and the Constitution of the United States and stop fearing the liberals party.Fight for our Freedom or you will not be re-elected.
sorry to say untill we as a nation are willing to hold a gun to there sorry asses this will not happen
you might as well ask satan to make you God
The only insurgency here is McConnell and we need to find a way to deal with him now... Expulsion would be my choice but that requires 2/3rds of the US Senate to vote for his removal. One of the MAJOR PROBLEMS with the GOP is that they will not fight for their claimed principles. The RNC/GOP has no principle they aren't willing to negotiate around, over, or to tunnel under..., they're morally bankrupt. If Trump is frozen out of his office we need to ask him to start a new political party.. the GOP is no longer the Party of Conservatives...
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