Trump criticizes Senate Republicans before voting on election results, calls for a ‘fight’

Trump criticizes Senate Republicans before voting on election results, calls for a ‘fight’

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President TrumpDonald TrumpMillions must lose unemployment benefits amid Trump’s standoff with Congress The memo: Could Pence run and win in 2024? Flights from Nashville stopped due to telecommunications problems related to the trailer explosion. MORE on Saturday, he intensified his criticism of Senate Republicans for their reluctance to help their efforts to overturn the election, pressing them to “fight” before the elected president Joe BidenJoe BidenFlights from Nashville stopped due to telecommunications problems related to the RV explosion. Does the Haaland choice show Biden’s commitment to a ban on fracturing public land? Police: vehicle that exploded in Nashville transmitted warning before the explosion MORE is sworn in.

Trump called the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP seeks to avoid Trump’s messy fight over the Bipartisan Electoral College, bicameral group urges Trump to sign the COVID-19 relief package Meghan McCain says Merry Christmas to everyone except ‘healthy people under 65 ‘who get vaccinated before frontline workers MORE (R-Ky.) And other Republicans, stating that they are not doing “NOTHING” as Congress heads for a vote early next month to certify the results of the Electoral College.

“If a Democratic presidential candidate had a fraudulent and stolen election, with proof of such acts at a level never seen before, Democratic senators would consider it an act of war and fight to the death. Mitch and the Republicans do NOTHING, they just want to let it go. NO FIGHTING! “Trump tweeted.

The comment marked the latest attack on Trump’s attempt to get at least one Republican Senator to support a challenge to the Electoral College’s results when Congress meets to certify them on January 6.

So far, no Republican in the upper house has definitively said he will support a challenge that is being pushed by several Republican Party members in the House, although Alabama’s elected senator, Tommy Tuberville (R), has suggested that he can support the challenge.

Senate Republicans hope to avoid a fierce dispute with the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue over the results of the Electoral College, while Trump intensifies his pressure campaign to convince Tuberville to join his allies in the House.

“At the end of the day, each senator will have to make his own decision about it, but I think there will be people, yes, contacting him just to find out” what he is going to do, Senate Majority Whip John ThuneJohn Randolph ThuneGOP seeks to avoid Trump’s messy fight over the Electoral College Trump creates chaos for Congress Republicans struggling to avoid the year-end legislative disaster MORE (RS.D.) said about Tuberville’s intentions about counting the Electoral College.

“I hope that in the end all the senators will conclude that this election needs to end and that it is time to move on,” added Thune, the Senate’s second Republican.

Trump earlier this week went after Thune while attacking Senate Republicans before the January certification vote, suggesting that the Republican Party’s top senator would have primacy in two years.

“Republicans in the Senate forget so quickly. At the moment, they would lose 8 seats without me supporting them in the last election, ”tweeted Trump. “RINO John Thune, ‘Mitch’s boy’, should just let that happen. South Dakota does not like weakness. He will have his primacy in 2022, political career ended !!! “

McConnell pressured his colleagues to stay away from the Electoral College struggle, saying it would force a vote on eliminating the challenge that would divide the Republican Party with Trump.

Trump and his allies in Congress and the right-wing media claimed without evidence that widespread fraud and electoral irregularities cost him a second term. The president persecuted individual Republicans, like Thune, for not agreeing with his efforts to overturn the election.

Thune said this week that Trump’s efforts to subvert the election “would fall like a bullet to the target.”

The president involved the Department of Justice in his lobbying campaign, saying the agency should be ashamed for not supporting its claims.

“The Department of ‘Justice’ and the FBI have done nothing about the electoral fraud of the 2020 presidential election, the biggest SCAM in our country’s history, despite overwhelming evidence. They should be ashamed. History will remember. Never give up. See everyone in DC on January 6th, ”he tweeted on Saturday.

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