Republicans plot attempt to deny Biden presidency on House floor

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: RawStory

According to a report from the New York Times, hardcore supporters of Donald Trump who serve in the House are willing to attempt to deny the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden if Donald Trump gives them a thumbs-up to proceed.

With the president insisting on Saturday during a Fox News interview that “It’s not over,” and Biden would be an “illegitimate president,” a few Republicans are making plans to use the rules of the House to contest the election results.

“As the president continues to refuse to concede, a small group of his most loyal backers in Congress are plotting a final-stage challenge on the floor of the House of Representatives in early January to try to reverse Mr. Biden’s victory,” the Times reports. “Constitutional scholars and even members of the president’s own party say the effort is all but certain to fail. But the looming battle on Jan. 6 is likely to culminate in a messy and deeply divisive spectacle that could thrust Vice President Mike Pence into the excruciating position of having to declare once and for all that Mr. Trump has indeed lost the election.”

According to the report, the effort is being led by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) who has amplified the president’s accusations of voter fraud despite a complete lack of evidence.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/republicans-plotting-to-deny-presidency-to-biden-on-floor-of-the-house-if-trump-gives-the-word-report/

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Original headline: Republicans plotting attempt to deny presidency to Biden on floor of the House if Trump gives the word: report

Related NYT Article: Trump Allies Eye Long-Shot Election Reversal in Congress, Testing Pence

But as the president continues to refuse to concede, a small group of his most loyal backers in Congress is plotting a final-stage challenge on the floor of the House of Representatives in early January to try to reverse Mr. Biden’s victory.

Constitutional scholars and even members of the president’s own party say the effort is all but certain to fail. But the looming battle on Jan. 6 is likely to culminate in a messy and deeply divisive spectacle that could thrust Vice President Mike Pence into the excruciating position of having to declare once and for all that Mr. Trump has indeed lost the election.

The effort is being led by Representative Mo Brooks, Republican of Alabama, a backbench conservative. Along with a group of allies in the House, he is eyeing challenges to the election results in five different states — Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin — where they claim varying degrees of fraud or illegal voting took place, despite certification by the voting authorities and no evidence of widespread impropriety.

The dilemma is particularly acute for Mr. Pence, who is eyeing his own presidential run in 2024. As president of the Senate, he has the constitutionally designated task of opening and tallying envelopes sent from all 50 states and announcing their electoral results.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/us/politics/trump-allies-election-overturn-congress-pence.html

Jeez.

[Freddie]

1. Nothing will happen, this is theater

An objection must be approved by a vote from both the House and the Senate to go forward. Dems have a majority in the House. The BS, if it gets that far, will stop there.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

25. Thank goodness. I guess if Rs held both houses Biden & Harris would be

denied the offices to which they were duly elected. This is horrific.

[paleotn]

2. Pence 2024...

[SunSeeker]

6. But he added "prance-clapping" to the national vernacular!

Link to tweet

[FM123]

13. That is the funniest thing I have ever seen!

[SunSeeker]

15. Right?

[catrose]

16. Let's Pencercize!

[NBachers]

22. He needs one of those Jane Fonda Workout era exercise outfits.

[catrose]

26. Ha!l Yes!l

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

27. But whyyyyyyy?

[AZ8theist]

29. A closet self-hating homosexual.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. I don't even think the fly could keep up with that!

Maybe he was smacking a swarm of them following him to the platform.

[Cha]

32. lol.. I didn't watch but was

thinking.. where's his fly buddy?

[BumRushDaShow]

37. He was clapping as he was running

not sure at what except maybe a swarm of flies!

[Mr. Evil]

23. I know it won't happen but,

can you imagine First Lady "Mother?"

[groundloop]

3. It's time to publicly embarrass these stupid motherfuckers

tRump needs to be ignored, but his enablers should be called out, laughed at, and ridiculed non stop until they quit this charade.

[Captain Zero]

5. Starting with Mo Fucking Brooks

Let's dig up dirt on him too after we make fun of him.

[SunSeeker]

4. More treasonous, seditious bullshit.

Fuck these losers.

[HariSeldon]

7. My understanding is this would require them to win multiple majority votes in the House

...good luck with that, GOP.

[Lock him up.]

8. Nevermind they'd ever plot to help the struggling taxpayers who pay their salary...

What a bunch of autocRats.

[Thekaspervote]

9. This has been posted and reposted!! Of course they will object.. it changes NOTHING

A senator would have to join a House member in objecting to a state’s slate of votes, and the narrow Republican majority in the Senate would have to stick together to approve the objection. But even if both of those things occurred, the Democratic-held House would not go along, and because both chambers must agree to an objection, the effort would fail.

More at the link

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/dec/10/casting-and-counting-electoral-votes-roadmap/

[Talitha]

18. Thank you for this breath of sanity.

[agincourt]

10. I would be more surprised about it not happening,

than it actually happening. They will need a fifth grader to help Mike Pence count to over 270. I don't know if there will be enough senators to try and make Trump repig dictator though. Even Nebraska's Sasse won't play along and there are four others who accept Biden as president elect.

[LisaL]

11. Sure makes me really glad we still have the House.

But what a bizarre set of rules.

[iluvtennis]

12. So tired of this BS. nt

[onenote]

14. Typical Raw Story hyperbole

The Republicans plan to exercise their statutory right to object to counting certain states' votes. When they do, their objections will be voted on separately by the House and Senate. To actually accept the objection, both houses have to approve it. That won't happen because the House will reject each objection. The Senate might do so as well.

The Republicans know that they can't actually deny Biden th presidency. They're just doing this to grandstand for the asshole in the White House.

It won't impact the outcome but there is one interesting scenario that could arise. The Senate will b 50-48 when the votes are counted (I'm assuming that the Georgia special election won't be finalized and certified in one day). I expect a few Senate Republicans not to go along with the objections. At very least, I don't see Romney going along. It would be amusing (albeit highly unlikely) if the vote in the Senate ended up 49-49, and Pence has to cast a deciding vote -- to keep up his cred with the Trumpers, he'll have to vote to uphold the objection, no matter how unseemly that will be.

[catrose]

17. Feels good to be in the majority in one branch of Congress. By Jan 5, I hope both!

[obamanut2012]

31. I am hoping Romney and Murkowski take an actual stand for once

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Draws near, draws near, the 6th day of New Year

The Republican treason and plot;
I know of no reason why Republican treason
Should ever be forgot.

[rickyhall]

20. I so thankful we have Speaker Pelosi & the Democratic Majority in the House to stand up

to these sorry dishonorable criminal fascist motherfuckers that call themselves "conservatives". I sorry but this shit really pisses me off. I was brought up to believe our Constitution and democracy makes us American or, at least, it did half a century ago.

[LiberalLovinLug]

40. Scary to think what would be happening now if Trump lost but Rs had both houses.

[Cryptoad]

21. The way Trump has shown his ass,,,,,

since election day, if they had the election redo, he wouldnt get half teh votes he did on election day.

[onenote]

34. That's wishful thinking

The vast majority of his supporters completely believe his lies.

[Warpy]

24. At the very least, they should be censured and stripped of committee assignments.

Personally, I'd like to see the lot of them facing treason charges.

I'm not a particularly cranky person, I just resent having my country stolen from me by a bunch of hacks who are wholly owned by a handful of fascist plutocrats.

ETA: Thinking mostly of the traitors who signed onto that ridiculous Texas lawsuit to overturn the election.

[rdking647]

28. brooks should be arrested for sedition

as soon as he leaves the house floor after he objects he should be arrested for signing that stupid court breif. lock his ass up for 20 years

[onenote]

33. How have you missed the dozens of posts explaining that signing a brief doesn't constitute sedition

under the US Code?

[NYC Liberal]

38. Jail someone for two decades for supporting a lawsuit?

Sounds like something that belongs in a fascist dictatorship.

[onenote]

35. C-SPAN may have its highest viewership ever when Congress meets to tally the votes on January 6

And it will be extremely satisfying, at the end of the process, to see and hear Mike Pence have to announce the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have officially been elected President and VP of the United States (unless of course, as is entirely possible and even likely, that Pence suddenly develops a tummy ache and leaves the chamber so he doesn't have to be the one making the announcement).

[Lonestarblue]

36. Let them have their moment of denying voters and federal court decisions.

Every one of them is up for reelection in 2022, and Democrats need to hang this antidemocratic action around their necks for all the voters to see. Citizens have a right to vote. Legislators do not have a right to throw those votes out when multiple courts have ruled that there is no justification for doing so. Democrats can rightly question their patriotism and their veracity in pledging to protect and defend the US Constitution.

[bucolic_frolic]

39. These traitors need to be labeled & tagged for the 2022 elections: what do we call them?

They are blind as bats to the political fallout. And they have their heads in the sand like ostriches.

Obviously Republicans had very big plans to damage America further, because they're not satisfied with what Trump has done, and they're not accepting a return to normalcy with Biden.

They are seeking a Reign of Terror.