2020 Election - Page 32

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-GA) warned this weekend in an exclusive Breitbart News interview that if the Democrats take the U.S. Senate majority on Tuesday then they will follow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lead and outright ban gender-specific terminology.

Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), who faces a Senate run-off in Georgia on Tuesday, reaffirmed his support for his Senate colleagues’ planned January 6 challenge to the presidential election results in an interview Sunday.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) plans to object to certifying the Electoral College results on Wednesday, according to a report released Monday.

Democrat senate challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are leading GOP incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA) ahead of the January 5 Georgia runoff elections, according to a recently released Atlas Intel survey.

Newly reelected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) chided members over strict adherence to “respecting proper health and safety guidelines” on the House floor in the era of the Chinese coronavirus less than 24 hours after making an exception, allowing exposed lawmakers to break quarantine to vote in the speakership election, which she won by less than a majority.

Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) told Breitbart News exclusively that Democrat challenger Jon Ossoff’s pledge to grant amnesty to every illegal alien in America is a threat to American workers struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and, as such, would be unfair to American citizens and legal immigrants.

Congress does not have constitutional authority to refuse to count electoral votes, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) told Breitbart News.

Monday ahead of his Senate runoff election, Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) slammed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for leaking audio of a phone call with President Donald Trump to The Washington Post. In the call, Trump pressured the secretary of state to recalculate Georgia’s votes from the 2020 presidential election.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced Sunday that he agrees with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) following the Republican’s statement blasting his GOP colleagues, who plan to object to the Electoral College votes in disputed states on January 6.

Democrat victories in Georgia would allow Joe Biden to fulfill his vow to sign the LGBT rights Equality Act, codifying gender ideology into federal law.

President Donald Trump challenged Sen. Tom Cotton Monday after the Arkansas senator said he would not join Republican colleagues in opposing certification of the electoral votes on January 6.

During a Monday appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) weighed in on the recording of a phone call obtained by The Washington Post of President Donald Trump pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to recalculate the state’s votes from the 2020 presidential election.

Monday, MSNBC contributor John Heilemann sounded the alarm on what he says is the nearing end of the Republican Party.

Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock, who has worked as senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for 15 years, has come under heavy scrutiny for his past speeches, sermons, writings, and run-ins with police as he challenges Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff election.

SUGAR HILL, Georgia — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) described the upcoming Senate runoff election as a “turnout election,” saying Sunday after a campaign event that the election outcome boils down to whether Republicans will show up to the polls January 5.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) became the first Republican senator on Sunday night who is actually a supporter of President Donald Trump’s agenda to oppose a challenge of the electoral college, issuing a statement saying he is concerned it would create dangerous precedents that Democrats would all but certainly use in the future to undermine election integrity.

During a Sunday appearance on Fox News Channel’s “America’s News HQ,” Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) said he expects to see a “big Republican turnout” in Tuesday’s Senate runoff election to help “stop socialism.”

Sunday on MSNBC’s “American Voices,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) reacted to audio of a phone call obtained by the Washington Post of President Donald Trump pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to recalculate the state’s votes from the 2020 presidential election.

President Donald Trump is expected to award Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Monday, according to a Republican source.

Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) traveled from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, after announcing she was diagnosed with COVID-19 just six days ago, in order to help secure Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as House speaker for another term.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) argued on Sunday that the recent election results have proven “the American people” are “fed up” with the leadership of congressional Democrats.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Sunday his support for efforts to challenge the certification by Congress of the electoral college votes on January 6.

CUMMING, Georgia — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) deemed Google the “most dangerous company on the face of the planet” during an interview with Breitbart News following a campaign event Saturday for the Georgia Senate runoff election.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) promised Sunday to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice during the new congressional term. 

More than 74 million Americans who voted for President Donald Trump have justifiably lost confidence in the electoral system because election laws in decisive battleground states were ignored or altered outside of the legislative process.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) are attacking Republican lawmakers who plan to challenge the electoral college over “unprecedented allegations of voter fraud” in the presidential election.

President Donald Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) on Saturday to recalculate the state’s votes from the 2020 presidential election, according to audio of a phone call obtained by the Washington Post.

Democrats are looking to put the state of Georgia on a fast-track to becoming their next deep blue stronghold like California, primarily due to mass immigration that has increased their voting blocs.

House members who are otherwise supposed to be in quarantine due to exposure to the Chinese coronavirus are reportedly using a separate entrance and “secure enclosure” on Sunday to vote in the speakership election.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said some 50 House lawmakers joined President Donald Trump and chief of staff Mark Meadows on a Saturday conference call to discuss the challenge to some of the electoral votes in several states.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said Sunday that lawmakers should welcome any debate over certification on January 6 but questioned whether “any new evidence” will be presented.

Among Hollywood’s most enthusiastic Georgia cheerleaders is Homeland star and Broadway veteran Mandy Patinkin, who has put out another cringe election-themed video with his wife, Kathryn Grody, in which they urge Americans everywhere to help push Georgia Democrats over the finish line.

Left-wing pop star Cher took to Twitter on Sunday to back Democrat candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in the upcoming Georgia senate runoff elections, saying in an all-caps screed “JOE & DEMS WILL DO RIGHT BY U. VOTE WARNOCK, & OSSOFF. PLS TRUST ME, & DEMS.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is turning the House of Representatives into a potential coronavirus hotspot, allowing Democrats to break quarantine to vote in the speakership election as she faces a tough battle for another term atop the chamber.

Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, said Saturday that the vice president “welcomes the efforts of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence before the Congress and the American people,” according to the BBC.

The House of Representatives will convene on Sunday to swear in new members of Congress’ lower chamber.