President Donald Trump met Monday with a group of House conservatives who are so concerned about election fraud that they plan to vote down the Electoral College vote and want the House to elect the winner of the presidential election that would give Trump a second term.
Sources familiar with yesterday afternoon’s meeting told @SecretsBedard that the team, led by Rep-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ala.), plans to pump up Trump and ask him to keep fighting voter fraud to show his strength. They will also discuss a plan forwarded by Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks to vote against accepting electoral votes that they believe are compromised by fraud.
Green was the first Mo Brooks to endorse it. In the past few days, at least two to four senators have said they will join. Under the rules, at least one member of the House and Senate must issue a call to reject the Electoral College vote.
That vote will take place on Jan. 6.
After the meeting, Green said in a video, “We’re not going to let this election be stolen from us by Joe Biden.”
Several prominent figures in the fight to overturn state election results are expected to attend the meeting, including Reps. Andy Biggs (D-Mich.), Jim Jordan (R-Okla.) and Matt Gaetz (D-Mich.).
Here’s Brooks’ plan: Congress votes to approve state electoral votes. But this year, it should have thrown out those electoral votes from states with questionable vote counts. The result was that neither Trump nor Joe Biden had enough votes to win, leaving the House to pick the president.
In this vote, each state is constitutionally limited to one vote, and because 26 states have Republican House delegations, “House Republicans control the choice of the next president of the United States,” Brooks said.
However, there is one outstanding issue the court must resolve first. When voting down a state’s electoral votes, it is unclear whether the one-state, one-vote rule is to be followed or whether all 435 members of the Democrat-controlled House have a vote.
“The Constitution says that when you elect a president in the House of Representatives, you vote by state delegation. So the legal battle will be: does the same standard apply to that part of the presidential election. So, I’m sure the Democrats will argue that it’s a majority of 435 to decide. The Republicans, on the other hand, will wisely argue that a total of 50 votes per state per vote is the deciding factor. Now, what will happen? I don’t know,” Brooks said.
In the past few days, incoming Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) has said he will join the group led by Brooks and Green. Georgia Sen. David Perdue (R) is also rumored to be on board. Others rumored to be considering joining are Senators Rand Paul and Kelly Loeffler.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other top Republican bigwigs have urged lawmakers not to challenge the Electoral College vote, but the most pro-presidential lawmakers aren’t listening to them.
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