Newly elected Republican U.S. Sen. Tuberville.
President Trump said Sunday (Dec. 20) that he has spoken with Alabama Republican Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville. Tuberville said he supports a challenge to the electoral votes when the House and Senate meet in a joint session next month to formally confirm the election results. Six senators have already indicated that they may participate in that challenge.
In an interview with WABC-TV in New York, Trump said he spoke with Tuberville on Saturday night.
The electoral votes will be counted by both houses of Congress on Jan. 6 and the results of the general election will be determined. If at least one member of each house challenges a state’s results, each house will discuss and vote on it.
On the House side, Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks (R) is leading the challenge effort. Along with a group of House allies, he is eyeing challenges to election results in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin. Among Brooks’ allies are newly elected Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Texas) and Barry Moore (R-Texas).
“We have a higher role under the Constitution (in determining election outcomes) than the Supreme Court, than any federal court judge, than any state court judge.” Brooks said in an interview with the New York Times, “What we say is what we do. That’s the final verdict.”
On the Senate side, at least five Republican senators have made clear they will challenge the electoral votes or are open to challenging the action on Jan. 6: Tuberville, Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, Missouri’s Josh Hawley and Florida’s Rick Scott.
Separately, Trump retweeted a tweet from a conservative Sunday saying Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue (R) told her he would continue to fight for Trump and challenge the Electoral College if he could win the Jan. 5 runoff.
Tuberville is currently the Senate Republican who has most clearly stated his intention to challenge the electoral votes in the Jan. 6 congressional session. Last week, while campaigning for Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) and Perdue, he said he would support a challenge to the Electoral College.
“You’ve seen what’s about to happen. You’ve read the news about it in the House.” “We’re going to have to do that in the Senate (as well),” Turberville said.
“We have no choice but to win this election.” Speaking at the rally in response to the two Senate runoffs coming up in Joe State, Turberville said, “They’re going to try to steal it, they’re going to try to buy it, they’re going to do everything they can to lie and use deception and theft to win this election just like they did in the presidential election …… but we’re going to put that right Come on over.”
So far, Trump has retweeted at least four pro-Turberville tweets. He called Tuberville a man of courage and called on “more Republican senators to follow his lead.
Brooks is the conservative member who led the effort to overturn the election results in the House of Representatives. He told CNN, “We need to improve our electoral system. The first goal is to reject Electoral College votes submitted by states that have serious systemic flaws so that they will fix those systems and keep election thieves from perpetuating and empowering election fraud and election theft in the future.”
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