Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah accused Republican colleagues planning to object to President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory of a playing dangerous game of political ambition in defiance of common sense and the Constitution.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP presidential nominee, admonished his colleagues on Saturday night after Sen. Ted Cruz and nearly a dozen Republican senators pledged to object to the certification of electoral votes on Wednesday, citing “unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law.”
Romney called the move an “egregious ploy” that “may enhance the political ambition of some, but dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic.”
The senator noted that neither President Donald Trump, nor his campaign, nor Cruz and a host of other challengers have produced any hard evidence backing up claims of widespread voter fraud that would have impacted the outcome of the presidential race. Former Attorney General William Barr, one of Trump’s most loyal Cabinet members, said no evidence of widespread voter fraud was found. The Trump administration’s own election security team, at the Department of Homeland Security, called the 2020 election “the most secure in U.S. history.”
“The congressional power to reject electors is reserved for the most extreme and unusual circumstances. These are far from it,” Romney said. “More Americans participated in this election than ever before, and they made their choice. President Trump’s lawyers made their case before scores of courts; in every instance, they failed. The Justice Department found no evidence of irregularity sufficient to overturn the election. The Presidential Voter Fraud Commission disbanded without finding such evidence.”
The move by the GOP lawmakers to shake up the final formality before Biden’s inauguration will prove yet another defeat for Trump and his allies after dozens of losses and dismissals in local, state and federal courts. Both houses of Congress must support Republicans’ objections in order for any electoral votes to be tossed. With Democrats in control of the House and several Republican senators, including Romney and Sen. Ben Sasse, calling the efforts in favor of Trump a mere publicity stunt, Wednesday’s debate will only delay the outcome already certified in all 50 states.
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Cruz and his co-signers have argued that certification should be delayed until an audit is completed to restore trust in the election, a claim Romney described as “nonsense.”
“Were Congress to actually reject state electors, partisans would inevitably demand the same any time their candidate had lost,” he said. “Congress, not voters in the respective states, would choose our presidents.”
Romney, a frequent Trump critic and the only Republican who voted to convict Trump on an impeachment charge, has repeatedly encouraged the president to move on from the lost election. Earlier this month, he told CNN that Trump should be championing the administration’s efforts to assist the rapid production of two COVID-19 vaccines instead of advancing “loopy” election conspiracies that flied in the face of facts.
“I understand the president is casting about trying to find some way to have a different result than the one that was delivered by the American people,” Romney said two weeks ago. “But it’s really sad in a lot of respects, and embarrassing.”
Trump, who often lashes out at GOP lawmakers who don’t fall in line behind him, tweeted “Great!” on Sunday morning in response to a tweet that suggested Romney, along with Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Pat Toomey, would face primary challenges over their decision to defend the election results. Murkowski and Toomey have also said they would not support doomed efforts to overturn the election. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has also urged Republicans to certify the vote.
Further attempts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential election are contrary to the clearly expressed will of the American people. Congress must now fulfill its responsibility to certify the election results. It is time to move forward. https://t.co/tDhA5PvccM
— Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) January 3, 2021
Sasse pointed out last week that not a single electoral vote has been thrown out by Congress since the 1887 Electoral College Act. He accused Trump and Republicans of running a fundraising campaign — not a sincere effort guided by law.
“The single-most telling fact is that there a giant gulf between what President Trump and his allies say in public — for example, on social media, or at press conferences outside Philadelphia landscaping companies and adult bookstores — and what President Trump’s lawyers actually say in courts of law,” Sasse said in a statement. “And that’s not a surprise. Because there are no penalties for misleading the public. But there are serious penalties for misleading a judge, and the president’s lawyers know that — and thus they have repeated almost none of the claims of grand voter fraud that the campaign spokespeople are screaming at their most zealous supporters. So, here’s the heart of this whole thing: this isn’t really a legal strategy — it’s a fundraising strategy.”
The president has encouraged supporters to gather in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, as Congress debates the objected electoral votes.
“This has the predictable potential to lead to disruption, and worse,” Romney argued. “I could never have imagined seeing these things in the greatest democracy in the world. Has ambition so eclipsed principle?”
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Hey, Mitt, traitors like you are a “threat to our Democratic Republic”! Wake up Utah voters!
How do you recognize a dangerous RINO in Republican clothing? They begin to mouth the Democrat party line and media establishment talking points to the point of insanity and moral corruption. Just what is it about this election that they are so afraid to INVESTIGATE? If this election was so clean, just what do they fear will be revealed? As far as Romney is concerned, Trump and Trump alone stands between he and a Nixonian clone Jedi rise from the political dead to get elected in a 2024 comeback. In the mean time there is money to be made is establishment deals, foreign investments and promises made, promises abandoned. Perhaps he thinks that first investigating and then certifying, even what could have been an honest election would unite the governing parties in comity which means further social division is what he aspired to and works for the people he represents, then he is the problem not the solution, and “the friends of American enemies’ is the enemy of America indeed”. Let the light shine on the corruption or the innocence. All fear is,,,by definition is the UNKONOWN, which will perpetuate more social chaos and American division unless INVESTIGATED and revealed for the good or evil that there is about the 202 election. Since when was fear part of the American Arsenal? Certainly not when our Father’s Democrat party ran things in WWII,,,but this is not that party and like Romney is anxious to the fraud.
Right now, i am fearing, we have MORE RINOS In the gop, than we do proper patriots..
I can’t hardly wait until this jerk is up for re-election. Please someone, let me know where I can contribute to whomever is running against him. We need a real Republican in the Senate from Utah, not this worthless imposter.
You mean someone who isn’t a faithless carpetbagger? The only reason he got elected in the first place is because he’s a Mormon and Utah is famously a Mormon state. I think his Never Trumper credentials are far more relevant than his religious faith. He’s nothing but a phony POS…
rino romney strikes again.
Thank goodness that Romney and Paul Ryan weren’t elected for president and vice president in 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Times like this, i’d love for the force to exist, cause i’d LOVE TO GO all vader on his butt… and i certainly wouldn’t accept his apology!
Our democracy is already compromised. People are losing faith in the integrity of elections. I for one and many of my friends are done with voting. The system was so rigged and nothing is being done about it. We are officially a banana republic.
Not voting is tantamount to allowing the Dims to stay in power FOREVER!
HOW is that any different, beaux, from how things already are though??
not voting is the worst UNAMERICAN thing you can do…..you are playing right into their hands
BUT when our ‘choices’ are corrupt traitor, or spineless traitor, what good is it to still vote, when effectively BOTH are the same?
Resistance IS NOT Futile, they may change the votes but we can fight. It’s an age old American tradition, lets honor our founders and FIGHT.
Romney is nothing more than a turn coat RINO! Hes a total embarrassment. You folks in Utah need to remove him!
UTAH…please recall this Republican turned Dimocrat!!!
Is this REALLY what you voted for???????
Yes, unfortunately it IS!
Mitt shows his true colors. He is a rhino and has no loyalty to the American people. He is an embarrassment to say the least.
What planet is this idiot from? First our government is a Republic (whats left of it because of jackasses like this slime) … second every battle ground state that President Trump won legally subverted the Constitution and defecated all over the law in favor of Harris and her side kick… third without verification of all the fraud ballots that was counted then the results “delivered by the American people” really wasn’t delivered. This chunk of excrement has much to hide financially if President Trump continues to sit behind the resolute desk. He …MUST… go down and NOW!
Never trust anyone who hides behind the bible. I learned that years ago.
I’ve been saying that for years… There is no question evil controls this moron. REAL Christians don’t hide behind the bible… it is simple followed. Christians don’t make judgment… only God does.
Mormons don’t hide behind the Bible, they don’t believe in it as being the true word of God.
Shows what you know.not! Mormons DO believe in the Bible, as far as it has been translated correctly. It has just been changed and truths removed. There are books mentioned that are not included. There are contradictions as well.
How did we ever select Romney to be a presidential candidate? This brings deeper meaning to Republican In Name Only. IF he has presidential ambitions he will not have my vote. But that may not matter if Pelosi’s voter fraud bill is passed. They will have locked up voter fraud for generations. The USA needs honest elections, which means positive voter ID for every voter, secure chain of custody for every ballot, and secure and honest counting.
And everyone should vote IN PERSON and show a government issued photo ID and be able to speak and read ENGLISH!
AMEN!!!
AND ensure ONLY US Citizens, can ever become voters, by PURGING THE VOTER ROLLS every 5 years..
NOT voting for YOU, Mitt, is the BEST VOTE I never cast!
Have you even READ the Constitution, Mitt?
Objecting to the Electors (the Electoral Votes) IS articulated in the Constitution.
Therefore, the steps/actions these members of Congress are expected to take, IS 100% Constitutional… As such, they CANNOT pose a risk to our Representative Republic.
Oh, note: It is NOT a “Democratic Republic”. Our Founding Fathers (and the Framers) expressly REJECTED a “democracy”, but I don’t expect YOU (Mitt) to know that!
Yes he has. THAT IS why imo, he despises it!
Mitt Romney is a fantastic example of why Republicans need to primary everyone of these RINOs and need to start today finding good Constitutional Conservatives to replace each and every one!
Stop watching Fox, Facebook Twitter and switch to the Pluto App which you can get Newsmax and OAN for free. Switch to Parler for news updates and Epoch Times.
Post all videos to Rumble.
Time to take their propaganda machine apart!
Newsmax, right now, seems to be just as filled with libtards, as fox has gotten.
Is your GOP congressman committed to vote against certifying the election results on Wednesday? If you don’t know, call his office and ask.
I was prepared to make the call and let him know that if he didn’t stand up against certifying election fraud I would no longer be standing up to vote for him in the future. I didn’t have to call since he announced he would stand with Donald Trump on Wednesday.
I’ve already contacted BOTH senators from Ohio, to let them know i am sorely displeased. ESPECIALLY with RINO Rob porkman..
When ever you need something negative said about Trump the press can always count on Romney to be the bipartisan voice, I wonder what his poll numbers look like now?
This is the only way he can keep his name in lights, other wise no one would pay attention to him.
Why doesn’t back-stabbing Mitt just come out as a Democrat? Why does he pretend to be a Republican when he won’t even defend the Republic against a fraudulent election? Mitt thinks a banana republic is fine.
Will Utah Mormons inflict this treasonous rat on their fellow Americans again? He should be recalled or at least primaried out. He was silent on Obamanation’s destruction but keeps attacking a Republican President who’s more of a Republican than he’ll ever be. He’s another McCain. It’s unbelievable that the Republican Party put up these two Dem tools as their presidential candidates.
dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic
What ‘dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic’ Mutt is the overthrow of a duly elected U.S. President.
I predict Romney will declare himself a democrat in the near future because he has no future in the Republican party. His days of being a relevant part of any conservative movement is over. Sorry Mitt, but this is now the party of Trump, you just haven’t read the memo yet.
Hell, does the GOP EVEN HAVE A future as a whole, anymore???
This disgusting POS traitor.
Shame on you, Romney and all your bend over Rinos. Even a blind person can see the steal. At the very least, you should be concerned by the allegations and truly want to be sure of a fair election. You state that voters have spoken yet aren’t concerned how many non Americans spoke, or dead, or out of state, etc. You have no interest in defending our right to a fair election and it seems your only concern is. to “go along.” You are a jealous angry man who came to Congress to be the fly in the ointment.
The fact, he either A) DOESn’T care that the steal happened, or is too blind to see it/refuses to see it, SHOWS he’s LONG PAST Time, to be put into a nursing home.
Anyone who puts the family dog on the roof of his car while traveling down a highway and thinks it’s okay, is in no position to preach to Americans and members of the Senate and House, who have every right to protest the electoral vote.
Mitts is so worried about preserving Biden’s election. Let’s see he’ll be when the SCOTUS is packed, the filibuster goes down the drain, and we add two new states to the union, not to mention our borders being deluged and overrun with illegals, for whom us taxpayers will be responsible for paying for all their freebies.
Romney is jealous of President Trump for doing what he couldn’t. He is mad that President Trump didn’t give him some cushy post. He is just a Trump hater and his case of TDS is severe. Just like the Dems. He should resign, change his party to Democrat and run again. See how far he gets. The ONLY redeeming thing about Mittens is the R after is name.