So as every liberal media print and broadcast outlet lambastes Republicans for challenging the Nov. 3 presidential election when a joint session of Congress meets Jan. 6, Republicans want to state for posterity their objections to the 2020 election. Democrats and their friends in the press like to point out that 74-year-old President Donald Trump and his mighty legal tam couldn’t prove their election fraud case in federal court, the fact remains that the 2020 election was highly unusual. Whether you can blame that on the Covid-19 crisis or not, never before in U.S. history has the country employed universal mail-in ballots. No one in the federal courts wanted to get into the murky swamp of finding out what really happened. Saying there’s no “evidence” or “proof” of massive election fraud doesn’t mean that something irregular didn’t occur before-and-after Nov. 3 when ballots were collected-and-counted.
It’s easy for a Democrat biased press to say that Trump has no right to challenge the election results, or, like 50-year-old former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that it’s “anti-democratic” or “anti-conservative” to challenge the results. Ryan doesn’t know anymore than anyone else about what really happened in the 2020 election. What’s known for sure is what Chapman Constitutional law professor John Eastman said in his brief for the State of Texas to the Supreme Court about the 2020 election. Eastman said because of universal mail-in ballots it was impossible to prove the validity of ballot collection-and-counting, making in impossible to prove fraud. Whether it’s difficult to prove fraud of not, it doesn’t mean that something nefarious didn’t happen. Democrats, the media, and anti-Trump Republicans, like Ryan and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.), think it’s disgraceful to challenge the results.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said today he didn’t think that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and other GOP senators supporting Trump will do anything on Jan. 6 other than make a political statement. But if Lindsey thinks about it, stating for the record that they object to universal mail-in ballots because, as Prof. John Eastman said, it makes it impossible to prove voter fraud. Stating in the Congressional record Jan. 6 that Republicans object to universal mail-in ballots because it’s impossible to collect-and-count the ballots accurately states for the record that they don’t trust the results. It’s fine for Democrats and the anti-Trump press to celebrate their victory. But Graham said Nov. 8 that universal mail-in ballots could make it impossible to elect another Republican. Lindsey said, while doubting the outcome, that he looked forward to hearing on Jan. 6 from his GOP colleagues.
Vice President Mike Pence, who presides over the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6 said he wanted to “use his authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence” supporting claims of “voter fraud and irregularities.” Everyone knows that because of Covid-19 election laws and rules were stretched to the breaking point to accommodate universal mail-in ballots. Many of the ballots lacked the proper signatures and time-stamps yet election officials in several battleground states bent the rules so the ballots would count. Republicans tried but failed to get a Trump-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Kermodle, led by Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Tezas), give Vice President the authority to invalidate the national vote and call the election for Trump. Kermodle tossed out Gohmert’s suit Jan. 2. Running out legal options, the GOP only has only the Jan. 6 joint hearing to object to the vote.
Federal courts around the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court, refused to take up Trump’s claims of voter fraud, largely because they open up an endless can of worms. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.), a former solicitor general to the U.S. Supreme Court, plans to make the case for election fraud before the joint session of Congress Jan. 6. Whether or not Cruz persuades anyone to change their vote to confirm the Electoral College results in anyone’s guess. But what Cruz and other Republicans plan to do is let the American public know on national TV what they think of the election results. Unable to prove fraud in court doesn’t mean that something irregular didn’t happen. Cruz’s burden of proof is far lower to give his opinion about what happened in the 2020 vote. Cruz asked Congress to approve a 10-day emergency audit of the election results, then convene Congress to approve the Electoral College results.
Democrats and the press have made their best case to the public that the Nov. 3 election results were valid, without showing proof. Republicans want their due process to state for the historical record, whether or not it changes any minds, that universal mail-in ballots made it impossible to verify the validity of the Nov. 3 vote. Republicans don’t have enough votes to stop the procedural task of tallying up the Electoral College votes, handing the presidency to Biden. Trump’s going down creating a historic record that he objected to the 2020 election, regardless of whether or not he could prove election fraud. Universal mail-in ballots forced state election officials in battleground states and elsewhere to bend the rules to accommodate the irregular vote collection-and-counting. Stating for the record the GOP’s objections cannot possibly be “anti-democratic” or “anti-conservative.”
