U.S. President Donald Trump campaigns for two Republican incumbents, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-N.Y.), at Dalton Airport in Georgia on Jan. 4, 2021.
President Donald Trump (R-Texas) said he will continue to challenge the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in as many as eight states, regardless of the outcome of a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.
Speaking to thousands of supporters at a Jan. 4 rally at the Dalton, Georgia, airport, the president said he hopes to have more news on challenging the election results in the next two weeks.
“You wait and see what happens in the next two weeks. You see what will come out, what will be revealed, The president said.
“It was a rigged election, but we’re still fighting it, and you’ll see what happens.
“Losing is acceptable,” Trump said, “but when you win by a landslide and they rig the election and steal it, that’s unacceptable.
Trump then said he would be taking on Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in Joe over the next “about a year and a half,” signaling that the president sees the post-election challenge as a long-term battle.
Kemp and Raffensperger, who have certified that former Vice President Joe Biden won Georgia, are largely not cooperating with Trump’s request for an audit of the election.
According to Trump, they recently remained opposed to a signature audit in Fulton County, the state’s most populous county.
The rally, which President Trump attended, was in support of Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.), who are running in the Senate runoff, which is scheduled to end Jan. 5. While both senators have pledged to oppose the slate of electors from contested states at a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, it is unclear whether the two will participate, as the results of the runoff may not be known for several days.
The joint session continues to grow in importance as dozens of lawsuits by Trump’s legal team and a handful of third parties have been dismissed in successive courts in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada. Only a handful of these cases have had hearings, and the courts have failed to respond to the vast majority of cases on the merits, dismissing them on procedural grounds only.
The event took on added significance with Trump’s unprecedented call for supporters to come to Washington, D.C., for a “big” and “wild” protest on Jan. 6. Some organizers believe the event could become the largest Trump rally in history.
According to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, more than 100 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have pledged to oppose Biden’s slate of electors on Jan. 6. At least 74 House members have publicly pledged, and 13 senators have also pledged to join the opposition, according to a count by the Epoch Times.
Challenging the Electoral College appears to have split the Republican Party, with 27 Republicans in the Senate and at least 10 Republicans in the House opposing the idea.
Opposition to each list of electors will spark a two-hour debate before the House and Senate vote on which list to support.
Currently, the Republican electoral college in seven states has submitted procedural electoral votes (procedural electoral votes) to Congress. However, Democratic supporters believe that because Democrats are in the majority in the House and have enough Republican support in the Senate, the voting process is expected to be smooth to certify Biden’s electoral votes.
Trump: Hope Pence will stand up for us
Vice President Mike Pence will preside over a joint session of Congress as Senate President starting at 1 p.m. on Jan. 6. Although the Electoral Count Act states that the vice president’s role only ends with opening the envelope containing the Electoral College votes, some legal experts believe the law may be unconstitutional, so Pence has more options.
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tried to force the court to clarify Pence’s role by suing the vice president. The lawsuit was dismissed, however, and Pence has not revealed his options.
“The vice president has the right to reject fraudulent electoral votes,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Jan. 5.
“I hope Pence stands up for us,” Trump said at the Joe State rally, “and I wouldn’t appreciate him as much if he didn’t.
“But Mike is a good man. He’s a great guy and a smart guy, and I appreciate him. He’ll have a lot to say. You know Pence’s personality: always direct, he’ll be blunt.
Pence has spent hours in meetings with Trump, staffers and senior Senate lawmakers ahead of Jan. 6. Sources close to the vice president stressed that Pence is respectful of the institution and said they expect him to follow the law and the Constitution.
David McIntosh, president of the conservative group Club for Growth and a friend of Pence’s, told The Associated Press, “I think he’s going to approach this as a constitutionalist and say, ‘What is my role in the Constitution as president of the Senate?
“What he will do is allow anyone who raises an objection to have their say and then abide by the decision of the majority of the chamber.
Pence was in Joe State on Jan. 4 when he campaigned for Loeffler and Perdue. At the time, he said in a speech at Rock Springs Church in Milner, “We’re going to make a difference in Congress.
The vice president then made a broad appeal to faith, suggesting that he did not believe he had the ability to take a position to change the election on Jan. 6.
Pence said, “Even if things don’t look like we expect them to, they will go the way they are expected to go. He urged supporters to pray.
Supporters: Trump is a fighter
Trump supporters attending a rally in Dalton, Georgia, applauded Trump for his relentless efforts to challenge the election results.
I think he’s such a fighter,” Amy Hicks, a homemaker from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, told the Epoch Times.
“While most Republican candidates, if they lose they don’t fight for it, he’s not your typical person or politician, and he never gave up during his four years in office,” she said.
“If they certified (Biden) tomorrow, I don’t think Trump would ever concede. He’ll just keep going.
Thousands of supporters walked for half an hour down a darkened country road from a police checkpoint to the rally grounds at Dalton Airport. The crowd erupted with chants of “four more years,” “fight for Trump” and “stop stealing elections” throughout the president’s speech.
“He has a right under our Constitution to fight to the bitter end,” Glen Ruggiero of Canton, Georgia, told the Epoch Times.
“If we give up just because we don’t want the country to be divided, the fact is we are already divided. If they’re giving up because they want a smooth transition, they can always transition,” he said. He said.
“As long as he abides by the conditions set by our founding fathers in the Constitution, I believe he should fight until the end.
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