GOP Sen Josh Hawley says “antifa scumbags” threatened his spouse and new child

Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who introduced in December that he would problem the outcomes of the Electoral College throughout Wednesday’s Congressional vote, mentioned Monday that “Antifa scumbags” frightened his household at their Washington, D.C. house.

Hawley has drawn criticism for his resolution to contest the electoral votes by lawmakers from each side of the aisle. Washington D.C. police are anticipating protests within the metropolis on Tuesday and Wednesday in reference to the electoral vote depend. In a tweet, Hawley mentioned that the incident occurred whereas he was in his house state of Missouri.

“Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel,” Hawley tweeted. “They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence”

Newsweek reached out to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department for remark.

Protesters from the democracy advocacy group ShutDownDC mentioned Monday they held a vigil at Hawley’s house. According to the group’s web site, the demonstrators “lit candles and delivered a copy of the US Constitution to Hawley’s door.”

In a Monday assertion, ShutDownDC activist Patrick Young mentioned that Hawley’s actions had been “undemocratic and unacceptable. Voters decided who they wanted to be president and now Hawley is trying to silence their voices, even after Republican election officials certified the vote count.”

Young added that since most of the votes at risk of not being counted got here from Black and brown voters, the problem to the electoral votes was “an attempted coup waged by silencing the voices of people of color.”

Hawley tweeted that “now ‘vigil’ means screaming threats through bullhorns, vandalizing property, pounding on the doors of homes and terrorizing innocent people and children.”

In December, Hawley grew to become the primary U.S. Senator to hitch with some Republican members of the House with a view to problem the Electoral College depend. At the time, Hawley mentioned his resolution was primarily based on his considerations over Congress’s lack of motion in investigating President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud.

Trump has repeatedly acknowledged that election manipulation was employed by Democrats with a view to swing the outcomes of November’s presidential election to President-elect Joe Biden. Trump has refused to concede the victory to Biden. Attorneys have filed a number of items of litigation on behalf of the Trump marketing campaign trying to overturn the outcomes of the election. A majority of these lawsuits have failed. Many observers have described Trump’s claims as baseless and unsubstantiated.

Former Republican Missouri Senator John Danforth criticized Hawley’s resolution on Monday.

“At a time of extreme polarization, the populist strategy is to drive America even farther apart by promoting conspiracy theories and stoking grievances,” Danforth mentioned in a press release. “We must reject this strategy and reclaim America’s historic purpose of holding our diverse nation together as one people.”

Objections to the congressional depend will not be anticipated to alter the result of the presidential election however may drag the method out longer than initially anticipated. In order to formally problem the electoral votes, a member of the House and a member of the Senate should log off on a problem. At that point, members of each chambers pause the depend whereas they debate the objection, which may take as much as two hours per problem. Currently, Democrats maintain a majority within the House and are anticipated to object to any challenges posed to the depend by Republicans.