Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Wednesday denounced President Trump’s effort to get Congress to overturn the results of his election loss — even as he escalated his demands for action from GOP lawmakers.
The No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives called the evidence-free effort to reject the results from some states Trump lost “politically convenient.”
“Congress has no authority to overturn elections by objecting to electors. Doing so steals power from the states & violates the Constitution,” Cheney tweeted.
Cheney joined a growing chorus of establishment GOP figures that are breaking with Trump in the run up to the largely ceremonial session of Congress set for Wednesday.
Trump again spouted false claims about the election and his belief that Congress can dismiss the results of the votes that were certified in every state and Washington D.C.
“States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
More than 100 conservative House lawmakers and more than a dozen Republican senators plan to do Trump’s bidding and object to the results that have been certified by several states where Trump lost.
That will trigger debates in both the House and Senate about the claims of widespread election fraud, which are baseless.
The objections are doomed to fail because Democrats are united in rubber-stamping the results from the states.
The GOP is split, with a significant group of lawmakers breaking from Trump despite his angry social media tirades against them as “Republicans in Name Only.”
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evidence-free effort to reject the results from some states Trump lost “politically convenient
The only thing politically convenient is the dismissal of eyewitness after eyewitness testifying to the corruption and theft of this so called election.
We had four years of investigations into the Trump admin, yet not even five minutes into the obvious theft of our election process.
AND there’s BOOKU evidence of the theft of the election, but there was ZERO into all they accused trump of doing…
And… this evil scum Cheney states… the congress has “no authority to overturn elections by objecting to electors” … then why the hell do these useless government scum even have this charade / sham? People we have to crash this whole system and rebuild it back to the original Constitution… it will be very hard/painful.. but it …MUST… be done!!! The only thing these demons in washington understand and worship is their own wealth… We must deny them that!!! Pull ALL your money out of the stock market and get your hands on all your equity physically… and do it now!!! If you don’t… THEY ….WILL… take it.
Yep Liz and like your father said, Iraq will open up its arms to us, when we invade it. How did that turn out, Liz? Iran now has a large portion of Iraq. A chip off of the old block, right Liz?
Just like Mitt and Mccain.. The entire Chaney family are rotten to the core.
evil…plain and simple
more like a … splatter of diarrhea on the toilet seat.
the republican party will not ever get another vote from me.
liz i am sure you constituents DO NOT SEE IT YOUR WAY.
you are all traitors and you will pay for it at the ballot box you are all feckless and weak a disgrace to the party of lincoln.
i hope you all rot.
Liz was raised by a self absorbed xxxhole,
Her father ole Dickie boy was as dirty as they come
And Lizzy is upholding the same spineless tradition.
Just like Meghan mccain, is cut from the same cloth as her dad was…
And the same goes for hillary and biden’s DEMON SPAWN offspring.
Well…it’s not really spineless… it’s: in your face, bold, self serving, it’s all about my person wealth, the rest of you piss-ons can go to hell, I don’t care about the stupid country/Constitution, evil!! She’s …NOT… being spineless about it at all.