Republican lawmakers to object Joe Biden’s certification in Congress

A section of Republican lawmakers are expected to oppose the certification of Joe Biden as the next US President on January 6, two GOP congressmen revealed.

According to a CNN report, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri said he will object, which will force lawmakers in both the House and Senate to vote on whether to accept the results of Biden’s victory. 

Among the Republican House members who have already publicly said they will vote against counting the electoral votes next week are Representatives Mo Brooks of Alabama, who’s spearheading the effort, Jody Hice of Georgia, Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey and Joe Wilson of South Carolina.

Eight Republican lawmakers from Pennsylvania announced their intentions in a joint statement earlier on Thursday. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse spoke out against such actions.

“The president and his allies are playing with fire. They have been asking — first the courts, then state legislatures, now the Congress — to overturn the results of a presidential election. They have unsuccessfully called on judges and are now calling on federal officeholders to invalidate millions and millions of votes. If you make big claims, you had better have the evidence. But the president doesn’t and neither do the institutional arsonist members of Congress who will object to the Electoral College vote,” he wrote in a facebook post.

Both a House member and senator are required to mount an objection when Congress counts the votes.