GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger
Adam Daniel KinzingerSunday shows the preview: relief from COVID-19 awaiting Trump’s signature; government continues vaccine launch Texas Republican Party President denies having suggested secession because of election results Texas Republican Party President floats secession to ‘law-abiding states’ after Supreme Court defeat MORE (Ill.) Called President Trump
Donald TrumpPost’s office will be named after Pearl Harbor’s oldest veteran federal agents seeking residence in Antioch in connection with the Nashville explosion. government continues vaccine launch MORE and his allies must give up their effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, referring to the effort as a “fraud” during an interview on Sunday with CNN’s “State of the Union”.
Talking to the host Dana Bash
Dana BashGOP lawmaker for Trump: Abandon the electoral argument ‘for the sake of our nation’ Republican Party elected congressman: Republican women are also breaking glass ceilings Ossoff warns that McConnell would paralyze the federal government if the Republican Party maintained the Senate MORE, the Illinois Republican targeted the president’s allies and so-called “thought leaders” on social media, who created different scenarios in which they believe Trump could nullify election results and serve a second term.
“[T]they’re getting retweeted, their followers, they’re raising money from this scam, it’s a scam, ”said Kinzinger.
“It will disappoint people who think this election has been stolen,” he continued.
“But instead of being upset with the people who led them in this screaming scam, they are going to try to somehow convince these people that they were, I don’t know, what the new word is, the RINOs in Congress,” he said, noting the acronym for the derogatory phrase “Republican in name only”.
“We have to follow the Constitution and I’m sorry if the result is not what you wanted,” said Kinzinger.
The deputy went on to say that there is no constitutional mechanism to overturn the results of an election as determined by the Electoral College, which voted in early December for the affirmation of the President-elect Joe Biden
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“The reality is that there is no impetus to overturn an election, even if you want to,” he said.
His comments are some of the strongest that Trump and his allies have ever seen among a minority member of the Republican Party. Most Republicans in Congress remained silent on the matter or expressed support for efforts to examine the unproven voter allegations and electoral fraud made by the president’s lawyers and others.
Although many remain publicly silent on the issue, the majority leader Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump criticizes Senate Republicans before voting on election results, calls for a ‘fight’ Biden faces fight with Congress over more relief for the COVID-19 coronavirus may complicate Pelosi’s path to being mayor next year MORE (R-Ky.) Supposedly he urged Senate Republicans not to bow to the president’s wishes and to contest election results during a special Congressional session in January to certify election results.
Trump has continued to level his allegations of electoral fraud and electoral corruption in recent days, even as courts across the country have rejected the vast majority of his legal team’s efforts to prevent certification of election results.