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Can America trust Mike Johnson to certify the 2024 election after Kamala Harris wins?
January 6, 2025
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Tbird19482
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Well he is a REPUK and kisses Trumps ass so what do you think?
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The recently-enacted Electoral Count Reform Act ‒ a modernized version of the 1887 law ‒ specifies that objections must be signed by at least one-fifth of the members of the House and one-fifth of the Senators.
The Congress elected this year, which will be sworn in on Jan. 3, 2025, will witness the counting of the electoral votes three days later. Whether they will accept the results and the winner is the question.
A Republican lawmaker who once eloquently defended the importance of Congress upholding the election results won’t commit to doing so again.
“Congress cannot overrule millions of votes certified by those states. It’s a threat to our federalist system and would play into the hands of those seeking to end the Electoral College,” Congresswoman Victoria Spartz, of Indiana, said in 2021.
But recently, Spartz, who held off eight Republican primary challengers, answered USA TODAY’s query by saying: “This question cannot be answered now, since we do not know what is going to happen in November and what the circumstances will be.”
A dozen sitting House members and four Senators said they would only certify the election results if they believed the results to be “fair,” which they defined in various ways.
"Look as long as everybody’s following election law in the states, I have no problem," said Byron Donalds, a Republican Congressman whose district covers much of Southwest Florida, including Fort Myers and Naples. Donalds voted against certification in 2021.
Notably, two Republican senators who upheld the 2020 election results also attached certain caveats to accepting this year's results.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. said he would want the process of appeals to be exhausted before he would accept any results.
Susan Collins, R-Maine., said she would uphold the results as long as she believed "the election was conducted in a fair way."
“How can I commit to anything with an election that hasn’t taken place yet?” said Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican of Colorado, adding she still has the same hesitations about the results that she did in 2020, when she declined to certify.
House Speaker Mike Johnson did not reply to USA TODAY's request for comment, but said in a press conference last month that he would only follow the Constitution if he thought the election is fair.
usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/20/will-lawmakers-certify-2024-presidential-election-results/74629753007/
Tbird19482
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Well one thing for sure they are not going to get rid of the EC.
The smaller states won't let that happen neither will the Repuks seeing they haven't had the majority of votes in the last several elections.
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It would be unconstitutional.
But we are ready for them to try.
Congress will have an unprecedented amount of security when it certifies Kamala Harris as the winner of the presidential election in January
The US Secret Service said the decision to treat the procedure at the Capitol as a "national special security event" was made after they received numerous calls from politicians, including Washington's mayor.
The agency said the classification will allow for "significant resources" at local, state and federal levels and a "comprehensive security plan".
This will be the first time lawmakers confirm election results since the US Capitol riot, when supporters of Donald Trump violently breached the complex on 6 January 2021.
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