Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) are facing potential Republican Party censorship in Aiken County, South Carolina, because they did not oppose President Joe Biden’s election victory.
The county GOP is expected to discuss censorship of senators at its Thursday meeting, although nothing has been decided. Several local Republican parties recently passed censorship motions against elected officials.
Graham and Scott refused to object to the Pennsylvania and Arizona Electoral College votes on January 6. Both men voted against objections raised by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO).
“This is on the agenda. This is the first step,” said Bob Brookshire, president of the Republican Party of Aiken County.
“It doesn’t mean it will be approved,” said Brookshire.
“I think many Republicans felt that we never had a day in court.”
John Massie is president of the Aiken Republican Club. He told South Carolina Aiken pattern potential censorship was a sign of “many people’s frustrations”.
Massie said there are still doubts surrounding the 2020 presidential election and added: “My nature is that when people suppress investigations of things that should be open and transparent, it raises a big red flag.”
There was no evidence of widespread electoral fraud or other irregularities in the 2020 election, despite claims to the contrary by former President Donald Trump and some of his allies.
More than 60 lawsuits were filed to challenge the election results and all but one were unsuccessful. Many of the lawsuits were dismissed by the courts and the Supreme Court also refused to hear a case presented by Texas classified as “the big one”.
“From what I’ve read in the Constitution, there are no constitutionally viable ways for Congress to overturn an election in which states have certified and sent their voters,” said Scott on January 5.
“Some of my colleagues believe that they have found a way and, although our opinions are different, I do not doubt their good intentions in taking measures to eradicate electoral fraud.”
“When it’s over, it’s over,” Graham said in the Senate plenary on Jan. 6. “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were legally elected and will become President and Vice President of the United States on January 20.”
“For conservatives who believe in the Constitution, now is their chance to get up and be counted,” he said. “So, Mike, Mr. Vice President, hang on. They said we can count on Mike. We can all count on the Vice President. You are going to do the right thing. You are going to do the constitutional thing.”
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