Sen. Ted Cruz
Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump pressure campaign in Georgia backfires with GOP Loeffler to challenge the results of the Electoral College on Wednesday night Defense: US aircraft carriers remaining in the Middle East in abrupt reversal | DC Guard activated before pro-Trump protests | 10 former Defense Secretaries speak out against military involvement in the electoral dispute MORE (R-Texas) will object to the results of the Arizona Electoral College on Wednesday, making it the third state that Senate Republicans are expected to contest.
Cruz’s planned challenge, confirmed to The Hill by a known source, is expected to be supported by several of the 10 Republican senators who signed a plan promising to support objections to the election results.
As Congress votes the results of the Electoral College in alphabetical order by state, Cruz’s objection is expected to be one of the first and, according to the source, will focus on his request for a committee to review the presidential election instead. to argue for the annulment of state election results.
So far, at least two states, in addition to Arizona, are expected to see challenges from Senate Republicans to votes from the Electoral College when Congress convenes its joint session to formally count the results.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Who as Cruz is seen as a potential challenger in 2024, promised to challenge the results in Pennsylvania and did not rule out trying to nullify the results in other battle states where President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Trump
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A separate source also told The Hill on Monday that Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) Is likely to challenge Georgia, a traditionally red state where Biden defeated Trump. Loeffler’s announcement that she would oppose the results of the Electoral College comes while she is facing Reverend Raphael Warnock in one of the two second rounds of Georgia’s election on Tuesday, which will determine which party controls the majority in the Senate.
Cruz’s decision to oppose Arizona, which was first reported by The Washington Post, came after he and 10 other Republican senators issued a letter over the weekend promising to support challenges to electoral results, unless a commission was passed. formed to conduct a 10-day audit.
“Congress must immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigative and fact-finding authority, to conduct a 10-day emergency audit of electoral results in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and they could call a legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if necessary, “they said in a joint statement.
Under the rules of Wednesday’s joint session, if a deputy and a senator object to a state’s electoral results, the joint session is interrupted, parliamentarians go to their respective chambers and the objection is debated for up to two hours.
For an objection to be successful, it needs the support of the majority in both chambers. This means that all objections made on Wednesday will fail both in the Democratic-controlled House and in the Senate, controlled by the Republican Party, where several Republicans have spoken out against the effort.
“I am confident that we will get 12” Republican senators, Cruz told the radio host Mark Levin
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