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3. Republican leaders in Congress could stop this but choose not to

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Wed Dec 23, 2020, 01:41 PM

Dec 2020

By Sean Neumann
December 22, 2020 01:13 PM

... “In the Senate, it would go down like a shot dog,” South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Republican in the chamber, told CNN this week. “I just don’t think that it makes a lot of sense to put everybody through this when you know what the ultimate outcome is going to be” ...

Meanwhile, however, a group of Republican representatives met with the president at the White House on Monday. There they reportedly discussed a plan to object to the Electoral College results during a Jan. 6 congressional meeting to officially count the electors' votes showing Biden beat Trump 306-232 ...

https://people.com/politics/top-gop-congressman-says-donald-trump-last-hope-to-challenge-election-will-fail/

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