{"id":101290,"date":"2021-01-03T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T07:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/dozens-of-house-senate-republicans-join-likely-futile-effort-to-reject-biden-victory\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:37:00","slug":"dozens-of-house-senate-republicans-join-likely-futile-effort-to-reject-biden-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/dozens-of-house-senate-republicans-join-likely-futile-effort-to-reject-biden-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of House, Senate Republicans Join Likely Futile Effort to Reject Biden Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"
More than 100 Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives and a dozen senators say they will join an almost assuredly futile effort Wednesday to try to block certification of the Electoral College vote showing that Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the November election. <\/p>\n
The certification of the 306-232 Electoral College vote favoring Biden, a fixture on the Washington political scene for nearly a half century, is the last step before he is set to be inaugurated as the country\u2019s 46th president on January 20.<\/p>\n
Both chambers of Congress would need to uphold the challenges to Biden\u2019s victory for the election outcome to be upended. But Democrats narrowly control the House and are certain to certify Biden\u2019s win, while the Democratic minority in the Senate, along with some Republicans who have acknowledged Biden\u2019s win, are likely to do the same in the Senate.<\/p>\n
Trump, who for weeks has made baseless claims that he was defrauded of election to a second four-year term, continues to cheer on protests against his loss, an outcome that will make him the fifth U.S. president in the country\u2019s 245-year history to lose a re-election bid after a single term in office.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn attempt to steal a landslide win,\u201d Trump said on Twitter over the weekend. \u201cCan\u2019t let it happen!\u201d<\/p>\n
He tweeted a video calling for his supporters to mass in Washington on Wednesday to protest certification of Biden as the election winner, saying it \u201ccould be the biggest event\u201d in the city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n