Cotton calls on Senate Republicans for misleading supporters about election results

Cotton calls on Senate Republicans for misleading supporters about election results

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Sen. Tom CottonTom Bryant CottonTrump acknowledges the end of the presidency after Congress certifies Biden’s victory Republican Party senators blame Trump after the crowd runs over Capitol Hill Tom Cotton asks Trump to grant, ‘stop deceiving the American people’ MORE (R-Ark.) He’s calling Republican colleagues, including Sens. Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyCongress claims Biden’s victory after protesters terrorize Capitol Congress rejects challenge to Arizona Hawley’s presidential vote to still oppose Pennsylvania after Capitol violates MORE (Mo.) and Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzCongress claims Biden’s victory after protesters terrorize Capitol Congress rejects challenge to Arizona Hawley’s presidential vote to still oppose Pennsylvania after the Capitol violated MORE (Texas) – though not by name – for challenging the results of the 2020 elections in a way he says is misleading.

“Some senators, for political gain, deceived supporters about their ability to contest the election results – some even sent out fundraising emails while insurrectionists invaded the Capitol. This is over now – Republicans must focus on tackling the Democrats’ radical agenda, ”Cotton tweeted Thursday morning.

Cotton appeared to be referring to Hawley, his potential rival for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, whose campaign sent a fundraising email on Wednesday promoting his plan to object to Pennsylvania’s electoral votes.

The e-mail was sent just before a pro-Trump crowd invaded the U.S. Capitol, temporarily interrupting the counting of Electoral College votes and leaving the Capitol offices and corridors ransacked.

Cotton during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” said “you have some senators who, by political advantage, were giving their supporters false hopes by tricking them into thinking that yesterday’s actions in Congress could somehow reverse the election results, or even get some kind of emergency audit of election results. “

“It would never happen, but these senators, while insurrectionists literally invaded the Capitol, were sending e-mails to raise funds. This shouldn’t have happened and it has to stop now, ”said Cotton.

He also appeared to be referring to Cruz, who over the weekend headed a letter signed by 10 other Republican senators and elected senators, calling for the establishment of a special commission to conduct a 10-day emergency audit of election results.

Cotton said these actions went too far, even though he acknowledged that allegations of electoral fraud needed to be investigated.

“We need an independent commission, which I proposed and [Sen.] Tim ScottTimothy (Tim) Eugene ScottDemocrats gain control of the Senate after Warnock, Ossoff’s victories Warnock’s victory puts Democrats within reach of the majority in the Senate. [R-S.C.] wrote a bill and presented it, to study what happened to electoral practices in the last elections given the unusual circumstances of the pandemic and to try to propose reforms for the future, ”he said.

But Cotton said that Republican colleagues and colleagues who pushed what he said are misleading statements fueled chaos on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and also cost the Republican Party politically in Georgia, where they lost two run-off elections to the Senate.

“What happened yesterday is partly the result of misleading claims from the past few weeks and also what happened on Tuesday night is the result of misleading claims from the past few weeks that the vote of the people of Georgia did not count,” he said.

“If you tell people that your vote doesn’t count, that the election is rigged, you shouldn’t be surprised when some of them don’t show up to vote and it appears that it has provided the margin of victory,” said Cotton. said.

“Democrats scored a few percentage points more in their strongholds than Republicans in Georgia,” he added.

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