A week from today, Joe Biden will still be on his inexorable course to become the 46th president of the United States.
Why, then, hysteria that suddenly grabbed this city?
The triggering event was the announcement by GOP by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri.
Despite the request of the leader McConnell, Hawley said that he intended to question the election voting in at least one condition while reading pro forma from the number of electoral votes by the vice president (and the president of the Senate) Mike Pence.
If Hawley is tough, his voice will force a joint session to divide, and each house debates for two hours, and then votes over Hawley’s claim.
Hawley will certainly be defeated because the house is controlled by Democrats Nancy Pelosi. As for the Senate, GOP members indicated that they would join 48 democratic senators in the opposite Hawley.
However, although his failure is inevitable, Hawley acts in accordance with the law and precedent. In January 2005, sleep. Barbara Boxer, for democratic colleagues, questioned the election victory of George W. Bush in Ohio.
So why this panic?
Well, after Hawley announced his challenge and was attacked, even by admirers, Ted Cruz and 10 other Senators GOP stated that they would also challenge the legitimacy of electoral votes cast on Biden in swing states such as Georgia and Pennsylvania.
As a result, Cruz & Co. He would vote for maintaining the victory of Biden until the newly created commission is able to end a 10-day investigation into complaints that he is fraudulent or falsified.
Finally, 140 Republicans of the Chamber signed the support of the challenge for most Biden election votes.
Despite this, the end here is that all these challenges will be rejected by most of the Congress chambers, and the number of electoral votes is 306-232 for Joe Biden.
Because the challenges will certainly fail, and the Biden path to the presidency will remain clear until the end of the week, is there something else that Hawley-Cruz challenges?
Actually. It is also about the fight for succession in GOP, who inherits Trump’s property if the president decides not to run again.
The challenges of Haley and Cruz are signals for Trump’s faithful that they stood at Trump, when the tender heart abandoned him to perform the establishment of the establishment.
As of today, the Biden is that negligible in the validity of the victory are Legion.
According to the Reuters-Ips survey of November 18, about 28% of all respondents and 59% of all Republicans stated that they were afraid that the election result was “falsified”.
Mike Pence, another potential candidate in 2024, also supports the challenges for the election voting. At the weekend, his chief of staff Marc Short issued this statement:
“The vice president shares the fears of millions of Americans about the fraud of voters and irregularities in the last election (I) with satisfaction accepts the efforts of the members of the Chamber and the Senate in order to use the rights they have in accordance with the law to raise reservations and provide evidence of the Congress and the American nation earlier on January 6”
Senator Arkansas Tom Cotton, also a potential candidate in 2024, a public position in opposition to Hawley and Cruz. On press Sunday, Cotton declared:
“The founders entrusted our elections mainly to the countries – not Congress … they entrusted the people to the choice of our president, acting by the Electoral College – not Congress. And they entrusted the decision of election disputes to the courts – not Congress. “
The Senate Republican, John Thune from southern Dakota, said that every attempt at home conservatives in order to question the election results of the College is “descent like a shot dog.”
Angry Trump wrote on Twitter that he hoped to see how “the great Governor of the southern Dakota @kristinoem would act against Rino @senjohnthune.”
Noem replied that she considered Thune to be a “good friend” and would apply for re -election as a governor in 2022.
It is understandable that McConnell wants to avoid the division of most of GOP due to a fruitless challenge for the ID card of the Biden elections and stinging among the factions supporting presidential hopes.
On Sunday, Chris Christie took the side of McConnell and Cotton, saying that the challenges for electoral voting did not have “nowhere … because there was no evidence for widespread fraud.”
Christie called the party to accept the election in 2020 and work with the fresh and legitimate president, Joe Biden.
Considering the changes of coronavirus in the electoral regulations, extended voting periods, the huge employ of cards for the postcard, the widespread belief that the election has been “falsified” and that the change in 35,000 votes for 155 million cast could change the result – this belief will have a long life in American policy.
The “corrupt opportunity” from 1824, which robbed Andrew Jackson from the presidency, is still remembered in historical books in America.
He will fight so long.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s Biało Paieo Wars: the battles that created and broke the president and divided America forever.”
