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Rep. Scott Perry Speaks to Challenge Pennsylvania Results
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1:42Now PlayingRep. Scott Perry brought up the Pennsylvania objection signed by 80 members of the House and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. The Senate later rejected the challenge to the Pennsylvania results.
Although their move was doomed to fail, a group of House and Senate Republicans had been expected to challenge Biden’s certified electoral votes from several states before the proceedings were suspended when a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol.
A group of House Republican registered objections to Georgia, Michigan and Nevada as well. But in the wake of the shocking disruption, which lasted several hours, most GOP senators dropped the effort. Objections must come from a member of the House and the Senate.
When Republican Representative Jody Hice rose to object to the electoral count from his home state of Georgia, he said that “Following the events of today it appears that some senators have withdrawn their objection.”
One of them was Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, who will be leaving the Senate after losing a runoff election on Tuesday.
However, Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri objected to Pennsylvania’s electoral vote submission. The House and Senate then split up for separate debates. While the Senate moved quickly to a vote, the House proceeded with debate that can last up to two hours.
The counting of the electors’ votes is normally a formality but became contentious this year after Trump refused to concede his Nov. 3 defeat on the baseless grounds that the election was “rigged.” He urged his supporters to descend on Washington on Wednesday to pressure Vice President Mike Pence and Republican lawmakers to reject Biden’s electoral votes.
Pence, who is presiding over the electoral count in a joint session of Congress and refused Trump’s calls for him to subvert the process, called it a “dark day” in Washington as he gaveled the Senate back in session Wednesday night.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who had sought to prevent the objections to Biden’s electoral votes, said earlier Wednesday that it was Congress’s job under the Constitution to accept the results and ratify Biden’s victory.
After the chamber resumed debate, McConnell said the counting would be completed “by the book” and “we will certify the winner of the 2020 presidential election.”
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