A Year Later, GOP Lawmakers Still Won't Say If Joe Biden Is Actually President

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Jennifer Bendery
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It's been a year since 147 Republicans voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election after fueling a lie about widespread voter fraud.

I asked all of them if they think Biden fairly won and if they regret their vote.

Nearly all declined to answer.

A Year Later, GOP Lawmakers Still Won't Say If Joe Biden Is Actually President
Nearly all of the 147 Republicans who voted to reject the 2020 presidential election results also won't say if they regret that vote, which was based on a lie.
huffpost.com
6:36 AM · Jan 5, 2022

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/january-6-republicans-overturn-election-capitol-riot_n_61d35f59e4b0bcd219561a94?rz


It’s been a year since 147 Republican lawmakers voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election after fueling a lie about widespread voter fraud.

They cast their votes just hours after a mob of white supremacist supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol with plans to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Vice President Mike Pence and others to stop them from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s win. They believed the lie, and Trump himself egged them on. Hundreds of lawmakers, staff, reporters and other workers hid for their lives. Five people died and hundreds were injured. Four police officers who defended the Capitol that day later died by suicide.

Biden overwhelmingly won the election. There was never evidence of widespread voter fraud.

Do those 147 Republicans now concede that Biden was elected president, fair and square, a full year later? Do they regret their votes against certifying the Electoral College count? HuffPost posed both questions to all 147 Republicans over the span of a couple of weeks in December, either in person or via their offices. (One of those members, former Rep. Ron Wright of Texas, passed away in February.)

They overwhelmingly declined to answer.

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[PJMcK]

1. Cowards (n/t)

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Rep. Jim Hagedorn of MN CD-1, voted NOT to accept the EC certification.

For Biden's win. He is more concerned about the 74 million who voted forTFG, than the 81 million who voted for TOG(the other guy).

Spread his shame.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. can't piss off the base.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. 71% think the election was stolen. We cant survive with those numbers.

Our democratic republic cant survive if that many are willing to overturn an election because they lost.