Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks (R) said Republican House members held a rare conference call Saturday night (Jan. 2) to discuss their goal of overturning some swing state Electoral College votes in a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.
President Trump (R-Texas) and White House Chief of Staff Meadows also participated in the meeting.
Saturday night’s conference call began at 6 p.m. EST, and as the meeting was underway, Brooks tweeted, “We’re gaining momentum in the fight for honest and accurate elections.”
He said, “(Rep.) Jim Jordan (R-Okla.) and I co-led the conference call with more than 50 members of Congress in attendance and fighting for the United States of America.”
“President Trump (Trump) and (White House Chief of Staff) Mark Meadows are speaking. Morale is high! Fighting!” Brooks tweeted as the meeting got underway.
Six members of Trump’s caucus brief swing state lawmakers on election fraud allegations
On the other hand, six members of President Trump’s caucus briefed a large group of swing-state lawmakers Saturday on allegations of election fraud.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro revealed the meeting on Saturday.
Navarro told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on his show Saturday night that he was part of a six-member panel that briefed hundreds of lawmakers from Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Navarro said, “We explained exactly how the Democrats orchestrated a strategy to take this election away from Donald J. Trump.”
Meadows: More than 100 House members and more than a dozen senators fight for electoral integrity
In a joint session of Congress, at least one Senator and Representative must challenge a state’s Electoral College vote before a follow-up process can begin, meaning the House and Senate will suspend the joint session and debate for up to two hours each. The House and Senate will then vote on the election results.
Sen. Josh Hawley announced Wednesday that he will challenge the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6.
Earlier Saturday, 11 Republican U.S. senators and senators-elect, led by Ted Cruz (R-Texas), issued a joint statement announcing they will oppose the certification of the Electoral College vote at a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6 and urging Congress to establish an election commission to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election results.
Brooks said Saturday that efforts to encourage more Republican lawmakers to challenge the Electoral College vote results are gaining “momentum.
“Right now, we have over a hundred House members and a dozen Senators ready to stand up for election integrity and against certification (of election results),” White House Chief of Staff Meadows tweeted Saturday night.
“Now it’s time to fight back.” Meadows said.
But the campaign has also drawn opposition from some Republicans, with Utah Sen. Mitt Romney (R), who has been a critic of the president during his tenure, calling the Republican senators’ plan to reject the Electoral College vote results “an overreaching tactic.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Mitch McConnell) had previously urged Republican senators to accept Biden’s victory, but neither he nor Senate Majority Whip John Thune (John Thune) have so far commented on the latest developments for Cruz and the other 12 senators.
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