Mo Brooks of Alabama Vows to Carry On Trump’s Election Fight

Mo Brooks – A Republican lawmaker is vowing to carry out his challenge of Joe Biden’s election as president despite Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recognition of the results and warnings from other GOP senators that the effort is doomed to fail.

Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama said Tuesday he’ll object when Congress convenes Jan. 6 to count certificates of electoral votes, usually a mostly ceremonial process confirming the results of the presidential election.

President Donald Trump so far has refused to concede — citing claims of fraud — and urged his supporters to fight on. Brooks said he would press ahead.

“If you surrender, there is zero chance of success,” Brooks said in an interview. “Fighting yields a better chance than surrender, so I fight.”

Presidential electors in the 50 states and the District of Columbia met on Monday to affirm Biden’s victory on Nov. 3 with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. Biden also won the popular vote by 7 million ballots. Courts at the state and federal level, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have rejected efforts to overturn the election results.

Brooks, 66, dismissed McConnell’s statement earlier in the day that the Electoral College settled the matter and offering his congratulations to Biden on his election.

“It’s exactly what you’d expect from Senator McConnell,” the five-term Republican said, declining to elaborate. “Senator McConnell is not the key to this. The key are the American voters.”

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The law allows for members of Congress to object to votes from any given state. Unless a member of both the House and the Senate object in writing though, the process can’t go forward. Brooks said he hasn’t asked any senator to raise an objection and doesn’t know whether one will. Like Trump, Brooks made claims challenging the legitimacy of the vote.

“It depends on whether a senator is willing to fight for our republic and the election system that is the underpinning for it,” Brooks said. “If a senator joins in the fight for our republic, then we would object on a state-by-state basis as that state’s name is called.”

John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said Monday that any challenge to the electoral votes is “not going anywhere.” McConnell, during a call on Tuesday, told GOP senators to refrain from joining any effort to object, according to a person familiar with the matter. Politico reported McConnell’s warning earlier.

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