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A group of Republican lawmakers plans to torpedo Biden's confirmation

2021-01-05T20:13:37.357Z


This Wednesday's session in the US Congress, normally a formality, will see the umpteenth attempt by Trump's acolytes to reverse the defeat


Posters calling for more economic stimulus, this Tuesday, in front of the Capitol, in Washington.ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP

A group of Republican senators and congressmen plans to torpedo this Wednesday the certification of Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the United States presidential elections in the bicameral session scheduled on Capitol Hill, granting one more assault to the battle of the outgoing president, Donald Trump, against the will expressed at the ballot box.

The challenge, materialized this time through objections from rebel lawmakers, has no prospect of translating into anything more than a display of protest and division within Trump's party.

He maintained the pressure on Tuesday, this time directed at his

number two

, Vice President Mike Pence, who should preside over the event.

The New Yorker asked him to use his position to stop Biden's confirmation, something he cannot do.

The day of this Wednesday is guessed

Wagnerian

.

Normally reduced to a formality in Congress, this time it will be the scene of an attempt by numerous representatives to delegitimize the very elections in which many of them have been elected.

Meanwhile, in the streets, thousands of Trumpistas - many belonging to far-right groups such as the Proud Boys - are expected to demonstrate to demand the permanence of their leader in the White House, accepting accusations of fraud against which neither the courts, neither the local authorities nor the Supreme Court of the United States have found a foundation.

"The vice president has the power to reject fraudulently elected voters," Trump wrote this Tuesday morning on his Twitter account.

In reality, neither the electoral votes of the presidential elections have been chosen fraudulently nor could Pence reverse the results already certified by the States on December 14.

The act of this Wednesday follows a procedure contemplated by the Constitution.

Congress meets in a joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate to count the electoral votes by voice and certify the victory of President-elect Biden.

The Democrat beat Trump with 306 electoral votes to 232 for the Republican.

To win you need 270.

The session will begin around one in the afternoon and will be chaired by the country's vice president, in this case, the Republican Pence, who declares the winner.

If he chooses to absent himself - something that, to avoid being in the trouble of having to declare Biden the winner, who he has not yet recognized, was not ruled out this Tuesday -, the most veteran senator, who is Chuck Grassley, will take his place, Republican for Iowa. In 2001, who had to pass that drink was neither more nor less than Al Gore, who was vice president and had just lost the November 2000 election by the minimum against Republican George W. Bush, after passing through the Supreme.

The act in Congress

First, the leaders of each party shall appoint

scrutineers

(in English,

Teller

) of both Houses, which are responsible for counting aloud the electoral votes that States have sent to Capitol Hill in sealed wooden boxes.

The votes of each State will be read in alphabetical order.

At that point in the process, is when Republicans who support Trump in his crusade against the results will take the opportunity to stand up and present objections.

These are only valid if they are given in writing and have the support of at least one legislator in each House.

Four years ago, in this same session, half a dozen Democratic congressmen protested Trump's victory, but they did not have the support of any senator and the then vice president, which was precisely the Democrat Biden, silenced them.

"It's over," he said.

If written objections do have the support of one member of the Senate and one of the Lower House, they must be voted on by both.

It happened in 1969, by a voter who had changed his vote in North Carolina;

and in 2005, for objections in Ohio, but they did not go ahead.

Nor can they bear fruit this time, since the House of Representatives has a Democratic majority and, in the Senate, the majority of Republicans oppose the latter ordeal.

The plan has the support of a hundred congressmen from the party and about a dozen senators, including Texan Ted Cruz;

Ron Johnson, from Wisconsin;

or Josh Hawley, from Missouri, and Kelly Loeffler, the Georgia senator who is contesting the election this Tuesday to keep her seat.

The session also takes place the day after the second election for the two seats that correspond to the State of Georgia in the Senate, which will decide which party will achieve control of the Upper House and, therefore, define a good part from the Biden era.

With the polls very tight, and after the tie obtained, the result may not be known until Wednesday morning.

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