With a large influx of citizens expected in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has called for the National Guard to arrive in advance.
Several Alaskans say they will be at the protest of Congress’ joint session to certify the Electoral College vote.
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Americans who believe the election was stolen through election fraud in key states are arriving in D.C. already, and some arrests have been made; at least one member of Proud Boys was arrested, ostensibly for burning a Black Lives Matter flag. A New Year’s Eve letter from Bowser to the Commanding General of the D.C. National Guard asks for reinforcments.
During the Black Lives Matter riots over the summer, Bowser famously refused to call in the National Guard, while churches, monuments, and businesses were destroyed and vandalized by rioters, and members of Congress were physically attacked by rioters while walking in the nation’s capital. People were terrorized in their homes in neighborhoods, as BLM and Antifa rioters went from street to street.
In the years since Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory, Democrats have campaigned to dismantle the Electoral College system, which is in the Constitution, and move to a popular vote form of election. But since Biden has won the Electoral College, those calls for dismantling the system have disappeared. Now, Democrats are in the odd position of defending the system they have been trying to take apart.
A group of Republican senators say they’ll object on Wednesday during the joint session of Congress, but it would take nearly every Senate Republican to join the effort by Sen. Ted Cruz and several more to bring forth a special commission to audit the results.
Already Sen. Lisa Murkowski and several other Senators are on the record saying they will vote to certify the Electoral College. But the objection process will force a debate and delay the certification, which is normally just a formality. The House has a slim Democrat majority, under the gavel of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
As The Washington Post describes it, that will force lawmakers to “choose between honoring the choice of the voters or standing with Trump.”
As for Trump, he has refused to concede and has challenges still active in six states. Over 50 lawsuits over the election have been thrown out.
Meanwhile, the control of the Senate rests on two runoff races in Georgia, which will be decided today.
