Objections to the election counting happen every election, they just don't typically get any attention because they never lead to anything but the objection themselves being noted, and the electoral votes being counted.
What is interesting is that this is actually what several republicans, notably Ted Cruz tried to do with the electoral college because they didn't like the path the Eastman Memo took. Eastman was correct that the VP could simply refuse to count the electoral votes based on the objections raised. However, people like Ted Cruz thought it was a massive long-shot to even try it, and wanted to use the objection process to stall the count until the Dems would agree to a congressional investigation (led by Republicans) into the 2020 election. It likely wouldn't change the outcome, but it could be used to do major political damage to the Dems and investigate real voter fraud.
This entire effort basically died on January 6th as a result of the riot. Cruz actually tried leading more Republican congressmen into objecting, and even cited that the reason for the riot was because of people's legitimate grievances with the election. However, he had no more political capital to do anything with so only a couple objections were raised, and the Dems moved onto pushing for impeachment and removal for insurrection, and claimed that not only had Eastman committed insurrection but so had Ted Cruz.
This is why AOC was claiming that Ted had been directing rioters to kill her, and why he needed to be immediately arrested and put through a re-education course (just in case you forgot how fucking insane the Democrats got when they thought they smelled blood in the water). A ton of Democrats in congress were calling for Ted's arrest because he raised an objection after the riot, and claimed that was an insurrection. His defense was that literally almost all of them raised objections in 2016 because it was obviously legal.
. If January 6th had really been what the enemy says it was, and they'd committed fully, we'd likely be living in an entirely different, and better, country right now.
I hard disagree. I think in the long run we'd be worse off if Trump had won re-election. If he had, the would have been blamed for the inflation, the Afghanistan debacle, all of Covid (from even contradictory angles), and we'd be sitting with President Harris or Newsome.
The entire MAGA movement would be dead and buried.
Luckily he lost and kept getting targeted over and over, making him far more aggressive against the Deep State than he was before, and understood whom his friends and enemies actually were.
Objections to the election counting happen every election, they just don't typically get any attention because they never lead to anything but the objection themselves being noted, and the electoral votes being counted.
What is interesting is that this is actually what several republicans, notably Ted Cruz tried to do with the electoral college because they didn't like the path the Eastman Memo took. Eastman was correct that the VP could simply refuse to count the electoral votes based on the objections raised. However, people like Ted Cruz thought it was a massive long-shot to even try it, and wanted to use the objection process to stall the count until the Dems would agree to a congressional investigation (led by Republicans) into the 2020 election. It likely wouldn't change the outcome, but it could be used to do major political damage to the Dems and investigate real voter fraud.
This entire effort basically died on January 6th as a result of the riot. Cruz actually tried leading more Republican congressmen into objecting, and even cited that the reason for the riot was because of people's legitimate grievances with the election. However, he had no more political capital to do anything with so only a couple objections were raised, and the Dems moved onto pushing for impeachment and removal for insurrection, and claimed that not only had Eastman committed insurrection but so had Ted Cruz.
This is why AOC was claiming that Ted had been directing rioters to kill her, and why he needed to be immediately arrested and put through a re-education course (just in case you forgot how fucking insane the Democrats got when they thought they smelled blood in the water). A ton of Democrats in congress were calling for Ted's arrest because he raised an objection after the riot, and claimed that was an insurrection. His defense was that literally almost all of them raised objections in 2016 because it was obviously legal.
I hard disagree. I think in the long run we'd be worse off if Trump had won re-election. If he had, the would have been blamed for the inflation, the Afghanistan debacle, all of Covid (from even contradictory angles), and we'd be sitting with President Harris or Newsome.
The entire MAGA movement would be dead and buried.
Luckily he lost and kept getting targeted over and over, making him far more aggressive against the Deep State than he was before, and understood whom his friends and enemies actually were.