Some Republicans are hoping that they can avoid a messy floor fight, in a hopeless war to overturn the results of the election on January 6 when Congress meet to certify the electoral college votes.
According to The Hill, Republican strategists are hoping that McConnell can quash the insurgency, believing the debate over Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the 2020 election is consuming the party apart ahead of the crucial Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia that will determine which party controls the Senate.
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“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,” a Wells connected told the The Hill. “The court losses, the publicity losses we sustain when our top attorney has ink running down the side of his face and has become the laughingstock of American legal circles, those things are piling up to hurt the president’s image.”
But, despite McConnell’s reported efforts its would appear that the results will be challenged in Congress.
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Reps Mo Brooks and Matt Gaetz have already signalled that they will challenge the results. And with Alabama senator-elect Tommy Tuberville said the would join them.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Congress is prepared to fight against what he calls “mounting evidence of voter fraud” after a group of lawmakers including Gaetz and Brooks met with Trump at the White House on Monday.
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Their challenge will not change the outcome of the election. The Democratic -controlled house will not recognize the Republicans’ efforts to toss out results from the swing states and even if the Senate approves, of Tuberville’s efforts it will send the results back to states where the governors would recertify the results.
But, its a strategy that some Republicans fear could hurt the GOP in the future especially with black suburban voters.
Read the full report from The Hill.
