Seven House Republicans concern assertion towards January 6 bid to overturn Biden victory

Seven House Republicans launched a joint assertion on Sunday voicing their opposition to efforts by a few of their colleagues to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump by objecting to the electoral votes from a number of key battleground states.

Trump and his allies proceed to baselessly declare that Biden received via widespread voter fraud. They haven’t supplied proof to again this unfounded allegation, and greater than 50 authorized challenges introduced by the president and his supporters in state and federal courts have been dismissed or rejected. Even a number of judges appointed by Trump and different Republicans have asserted of their rulings that no proof has been supplied to assist the extraordinary claims.

A rising variety of GOP lawmakers plan to object to the election ends in a number of states received by Biden on January 6, when Congress formally counts the electoral votes. This effort is broadly anticipated to fail, as each the House and Senate must vote to approve any objections. Democrats narrowly management the House and although Republicans narrowly management the Senate, there look like sufficient GOP senators that may vote towards any objections alongside their Democratic colleagues.

“Our job on January 6th is to determine whether these are the electors the states sent us, not whether these are the electors the states should have sent us,” GOP Representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ken Buck of Colorado, Chip Roy of Texas, Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, Tom McClintock of California and Nancy Mace of South Carolina stated in a joint assertion opposing their colleagues’ plans to object.

The Republican lawmakers did elevate issues about election safety and the allegations perpetrated by the president and his supporters. However, the GOP lawmakers famous that the Constitution doesn’t give them the authority to vary the election outcomes the way in which a few of their colleagues need to.

“The text of the Constitution is clear. States select electors. Congress does not. Accordingly our path forward is clear. We must respect the states’ authority here,” they stated. “Though doing so may frustrate our immediate political objectives, we have sworn an oath to promote the Constitution above our policy goals. We must count the electoral votes submitted by the states.”

Newsweek reached out to Representative Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican who’s main the House Republican effort to object, for remark. But he didn’t instantly reply.

A bipartisan group of senators additionally criticized the GOP efforts to object in a separate Sunday assertion.

“The 2020 election is over. All challenges through recounts and appeals have been exhausted. At this point, further attempts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential election are contrary to the clearly expressed will of the American people and only serve to undermine Americans’ confidence in the already determined election results,” the group of lawmakers stated.

Republican Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana joined Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Dick Durbin of Illinois, and Mark Warner of Virginia, in addition to unbiased Senator Angus King of Maine collectively issued the assertion.