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   11 Senate Republicans say they will oppose Electoral College results Wednesday.
   The Hill (Moderate Left) • Credibility Grade 78% • 7 min read
   

   “Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states,” [the 11 Senators] said. “Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed. Wednesday will mark only the third time since 1887 that Congress has had to debate and vote on an objection. The attempts to change the results in 1969 and 2005 were also unsuccessful.
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   If an objection has the support of a member of the House and a member of the Senate, the two chambers separate and debate it for up to two hours. Both the House and Senate would then vote on whether to uphold the objection, which would require a majority in both chambers to be successful. Wednesday’s objections will fail because Democrats control the House and several GOP senators have said they will oppose objections next week.
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   The objection on Jan. 6 will not change President-elect Joe Biden’s win, but it is putting GOP incumbents up for reelection in 2022 in a political bind because they will have to pick between supporting claims of fraud, which many of them have spoken out against, or voting against the president and potentially fueling a primary challenge.

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   Gohmert suggests ‘violence in the streets’ after judge rejects bid to force VP Pence to overturn Biden’s win.
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