Texas electors just asked four swing states to reject the election results that assured victory for Joe Biden.
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) December 14, 2020
The four states listed in the resolution already cast their votes for Biden Monday afternoon. https://t.co/KmCaJ4pZr8
Hours ahead of Monday’s meeting, even with Texas slated to deliver its votes to Trump, several Republicans suggested that the nation’s election results were not yet set
“The Electoral College is casting their votes,” tweeted U.S. Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Terrell. “Democrats will soon say it is time to move on. They are 100% WRONG. We should not move on until the massive claims of voter fraud are answered and addressed!”
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, an Austin Republican, released a statement Monday afternoon saying “there’s no question about the outcomes in Texas, despite the millions upon millions that Democrats desperately poured into races all over the place.” But followed up with a call for for answers to “some legitimate questions” raised about “what went on in” races in other states.
Oddly, those "legitimate questions" are only being raised on Twitter. Maybe if Trump would actually put the allegations of fraud he makes in tweets before a judge as evidence. But this he has uniformly, through his counsel, failed and refused to do.
Now go away; you're stinking up the place and make Texas look even stupider. I didn't think that was possible, but you keep lowering the bar.
Here is a copy of the resolution for those wondering: https://t.co/Rl2d5mgNLK pic.twitter.com/PJ3KirRIku
— Alexandra Samuels (@AlexSamuelsx5) December 14, 2020
The resolution also “condemn[ed] the lack of action by the U.S. Supreme Court” to overturn the election results. There was a brief debate among electors over whether they should keep language in the resolution denouncing members of the U.S. Supreme Court for “moral cowardice.” On Friday, the high court briskly rejected a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton that sought to overturn the election results and had become a vehicle for Republicans across the country to contest Biden’s victory.One elector said the inclusion of the Supreme Court language would make Texas appear “childish, impertinent and angry.” An amendment deleting the language eventually prevailed.
Yeah, that really would have turned this model of statesmanship and decorum into a petty bit of squabbling and churlishness. Good call, that.
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