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Dozens of House, Senate Republicans Join Likely Futile Effort to Reject Biden
Victory

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - More than 100 Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of
   Representatives and a dozen senators say they will join an almost
   assuredly futile effort Wednesday to try to block certification of the
   Electoral College vote showing that Democrat Joe Biden defeated
   President Donald Trump in the November election.

   The certification of the 306-232 Electoral College vote favoring Biden,
   a fixture on the Washington political scene for nearly a half century,
   is the last step before he is set to be inaugurated as the country's
   46th president on January 20.

   Both chambers of Congress would need to uphold the challenges to
   Biden's victory for the election outcome to be upended. But Democrats
   narrowly control the House and are certain to certify Biden's win,
   while the Democratic minority in the Senate, along with some
   Republicans who have acknowledged Biden's win, are likely to do the
   same in the Senate.

   Trump, who for weeks has made baseless claims that he was defrauded of
   election to a second four-year term, continues to cheer on protests
   against his loss, an outcome that will make him the fifth U.S.
   president in the country's 245-year history to lose a re-election bid
   after a single term in office.

   "An attempt to steal a landslide win," Trump said on Twitter over the
   weekend. "Can't let it happen!"

   He tweeted a video calling for his supporters to mass in Washington on
   Wednesday to protest certification of Biden as the election winner,
   saying it "could be the biggest event" in the city's history.

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