The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold its first Congressional hearing Wednesday (Dec. 16) to examine “irregularities” in the 2020 presidential election and invite six witnesses to appear.
, chairman of the committee is a Wisconsin republican senator Ron Johnson (Ron Johnson), he told fox business TV on Tuesday (15) of Maria buddy romo (Maria Bartiromo) shows an interview: “we have a variety of examples of fraud, we know that a large proportion of the American public don’t think this is a legitimate election. This is not sustainable for our country.
“We have to have confidence in this election, and we have to restore that confidence. One way is to point out problems through oversight hearings. So things can be put right and managed properly in the next election.” He said.
Johnson later posted the interview on his Twitter account and said an oversight hearing tomorrow would examine irregularities in the 2020 election.
According to a link Johnson posted to the hearing, the six witnesses identified Wednesday were:
Kenneth Starr, former Attorney General
- U.S. Election Assistance Commission Commissioner Donald Palmer
- James Troupis of The Law firm Troupis, a Wisconsin litigator for the Trump campaign.
- Representative Francis Ryan of The State of Pennsylvania
- Harvey & Binnall partner Jessie Binnall, a Trump campaign litigator in Nevada.
- Chris Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Directorate (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security (who was fired by Trump in November for failing to investigate fraud).
A decision by the party’s split committee is expected to be difficult
The homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee consists of 15 senators, eight Republicans and seven Democrats. Any committee decision after a hearing requires a vote and a majority.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate, California Senator Carol Ho, is a member of the subcommittee. Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has said he has no plans to attend Wednesday’s election irregularities hearing.
Democrats have opposed the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s 2020 presidential election irregularities hearing. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the Senate, lashed out at Mr Johnson directly at the hearing last week and told him to cancel it immediately.
Johnson responded at the time that the hearing would help him decide whether to join House Republicans in challenging the election results at the January 6 congressional electoral college vote count meeting.
Johnson is now likely to become the first Republican senator to challenge the electoral college vote, as Congressional processes require at least one member of both houses of Congress to do so. He has met with Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, a Republican in the House, to talk about highlighting violations ahead of the hearing.
“If there is an unexplained violation, that’s fine, [we can] put it aside, because we have to restore confidence in our electoral system,” Johnson told CNN last week, “and we need to change the law or enforce the law so that this doesn’t happen in the future.”
But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday publicly acknowledged the victory of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice presidential nominee He Jin Li, and called on Republican senators not to challenge the Electoral College vote.
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