{"id":4181,"date":"2021-01-09T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2021-01-09T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:33:32","slug":"a-majority-of-house-republicans-voted-to-reject-results-from-arizona-and-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"A majority of House Republicans voted to reject results from Arizona and Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The majority of House Republicans still chose to reject electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania, hours after a pro-Trump mob fueled by conspiracy theories&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/1\/6\/22217307\/thousands-trump-supporters-stormed-us-capitol-evacuate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stormed the Capitol<\/a>&nbsp;Wednesday, leaving one woman dead and a nation rattled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These votes had no material effect on the transition of power. After the Capitol had been cleared, Congress met in a joint session to fulfill its legal obligation to count the Electoral College\u2019s votes, but given that Democrats hold a majority in the House and most Senate Republicans were unwilling to object, there was no path forward, and the votes failed. A majority of both chambers have to reject a state\u2019s votes for an objection to stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, after a day of violent insurrection, it has become too clear just how dangerous it can be to feed into anti-democratic delusions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/1\/7\/22218225\/house-republicans-senate-electoral-college-votes-storm-capitol-election-stop-the-steal-trump-biden\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/1\/7\/22218225\/house-republicans-senate-electoral-college-votes-storm-capitol-election-stop-the-steal-trump-biden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The majority of House Republicans still chose to reject electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania, hours after a pro-Trump mob fueled by conspiracy theories stormed the Capitol Wednesday, leaving one woman dead and a nation rattled.<\/p>\n<p>These votes had no material effect on the transition of power. After the Capitol had been cleared, Congress met in a joint session to fulfill its legal obligation to count the Electoral College\u2019s votes, but given that Democrats hold a majority in the House and most Senate Republicans were unwilling to object, there was no path forward, and the votes failed. A majority of both chambers have to reject a state\u2019s votes for an objection to stick.<\/p>\n<p>However, after a day of violent insurrection, it has become too clear just how dangerous it can be to feed into anti-democratic delusions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,372,373,506],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-election","tag-presidential","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}