{"id":4183,"date":"2021-01-09T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2021-01-09T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:44:30","slug":"147-republican-lawmakers-still-objected-to-the-election-results-after-the-capitol-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4183","title":{"rendered":"147 Republican lawmakers still objected to the election results after the Capitol attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Steve Daines (R-MT), and James Lankford (R-OK) are among the Republicans no longer objecting to the results of the presidential election following a day of violence and destruction<\/a> by President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters at the Capitol \u2014 but not everyone has changed their minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a vote Wednesday evening, six Republican senators and 121 House Republicans still backed objections to certifying the electoral outcome in Arizona, a surprising result in the wake of the violence that occurred earlier in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), John Kennedy (R-LA), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Roger Marshall (R-KS), maintained their objections \u2014 even though they\u2019re unfounded, won\u2019t be going anywhere, and further amplify lies about a rigged election.(The objection did not obtain a majority of votes in either chamber, and failed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the appropriate place for these concerns to be raised,\u201d Hawley said in a floor speech, highlighting questions he still had about Pennsylvania election laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their decisions to uphold these objections suggests that some are still shockingly comfortable undermining the democratic process even after pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol to contest the validity of the election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an attack that Republican lawmakers\u2019 actions helped stoke, given their willingness to support Trump\u2019s repeated, unproven claims about a fraudulent election.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/1\/6\/22218058\/republicans-objections-election-results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Steve Daines (R-MT), and James Lankford (R-OK) are among the Republicans no longer objecting to the results of the presidential election following a day of violence and destruction by President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters at the Capitol \u2014 but not everyone has changed their minds.<\/p>\n

In a vote Wednesday evening, six Republican senators and 121 House Republicans still backed objections to certifying the electoral outcome in Arizona, a surprising result in the wake of the violence that occurred earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), John Kennedy (R-LA), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Roger Marshall (R-KS), maintained their objections \u2014 even though they\u2019re unfounded, won\u2019t be going anywhere, and further amplify lies about a rigged election. (The objection did not obtain a majority of votes in either chamber, and failed.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the appropriate place for these concerns to be raised,\u201d Hawley said in a floor speech, highlighting questions he still had about Pennsylvania election laws.<\/p>\n

Their decisions to uphold these objections suggests that some are still shockingly comfortable undermining the democratic process even after pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol to contest the validity of the election results.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an attack that Republican lawmakers\u2019 actions helped stoke, given their willingness to support Trump\u2019s repeated, unproven claims about a fraudulent election.”<\/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":[431,372,373,1106],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-election","tag-presidential","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","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=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4184,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions\/4184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}