Why Senate Republicans can't object away Biden's win

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Today, Congress will gather in a joint session to tally and certify the votes of the Electoral College, which Joe Biden officially won last month with 306 votes to Donald Trump’s 232. As president of the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence is slated to announce Biden as the next president of the United States. But in his desperate and undemocratic efforts to remain in power, Trump has pressured Pence and Republican senators to somehow disqualify dozens of Biden’s electoral votes.

Can they really do that? “Legally and politically, the answer is no,” writes Donald Brand, a scholar of American politics at College of the Holy Cross in his concise explainer on today’s proceedings.

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