{"id":148480,"date":"2021-01-06T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/you-each-must-make-electoral-college-decision\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:48:08","slug":"you-each-must-make-electoral-college-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/you-each-must-make-electoral-college-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"#You each must make Electoral College decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#You each must make Electoral College decision<\/strong>”
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has reportedly told his Republican members that they must each make the decision for themselves on whether to object to certifying Electoral College results, and that he \u201cwon\u2019t judge anybody for their decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments came on a recent conference call, Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told Politico<\/a>. <\/p>\n

During the call, McConnell (R-Ky.) told GOP lawmakers that, \u201cthis is a very difficult decision for each one of you, you each have to make it yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve voted twice on declarations of war,\u201d the top Senate Republican was quoted by Cramer as saying, \u201cThis is right up there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut,\u201d he continued, \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of noise out there and I won\u2019t judge anybody for their decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for McConnell did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment on the report.<\/p>\n

While he has remained wholly opposed to GOP objections to certifying President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s Electoral College victory, McConnell, the outlet reports, is not actively pushing his conference against the effort led by\u00a0Sens.\u00a0Josh Hawley\u00a0(R-Mo.) and\u00a0Ted Cruz\u00a0(R-Tx.).<\/p>\n

Instead, the Kentucky senator is \u201coffering guidance when it\u2019s sought, fielding calls from at least half the Senate GOP,\u201d according to a source familiar with the matter, speaking to Politico. <\/p>\n

Cruz will lead a group of Republican colleagues in objecting to the certification of at least three states: Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

States like Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin could also be added.<\/p>\n

Long viewed as a routine legislative affair, this year\u2019s certification process will be unlike any other. The reason: dozens of House Republicans will be joined by at least 12 GOP senators to object to certifying the results.<\/p>\n

It has been commonplace for House lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to challenge the election results during the certification process, something they are permitted to do under the\u00a0Electoral Count Act\u00a0of 1887.<\/p>\n

What isn\u2019t common, however, is any senator joining the effort, let alone 12.<\/p>\n

The Electoral College\u00a0went 306-232 for Biden, but President Trump has alleged that widespread fraud tipped the results in must-win swing states. Courts have rejected those claims, and Trump has refused to concede.<\/p>\n

The effort is not expected to be successful in overturning Biden\u2019s victory and has largely been criticized as a litmus test for lawmakers\u2019 support for Trump, though Cruz has argued that his only motivation was to launch a commission on voter fraud.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#You each must make Electoral College decision” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has reportedly told his Republican members that they must each make the decision for themselves on whether to object to certifying Electoral College results, and that he \u201cwon\u2019t judge anybody for their decision.\u201d The comments came on a recent conference call, Sen. Kevin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/210106-mcconnell-senate-election-objections.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[88638,70327,4941,70471,41445,70289],"class_list":["post-148480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-6-21","tag-2020-presidential-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}