Rep. Mo Brooks: ‘Dozens’ of House Members Joining Jan. 6 Electoral College Challenge
By Jack Phillips
December 28, 2020 Updated: December 28, 2020

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), the GOP leader of a plan to challenge Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, said that “dozens” of House members are going to sponsor a measure to object.

“There are dozens in the House of Representatives who have reached that conclusion that I have; we’re going to sponsor and co-sponsor objections to the Electoral College vote returns,” Brooks told Fox News on Monday morning.

The move, which has to occur during the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6, requires a member of the House and a member of the Senate to carry out. So far, Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has suggested he might join Brooks and the other GOP House lawmakers. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has also suggested he might as well. Neither Tuberbille nor Paul have made public statements affirming the effort.

Members of the Senate leadership, namely Majority Whip John Thune (R-Ky.), have said the effort led by Brooks is doomed to fail regardless of who joins him.

Meanwhile, Brooks said in the Fox interview that it’s still not clear whether any Republican senator will partake in the challenge.

“The real issue is whether we have any senators who have done their homework and have studied what has transpired … that there has been massive voter fraud and election theft unlike anything we have seen in American history,” Brooks said.

Over the weekend, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), in comments widely publicized by news outlets, referred to Brooks’s effort as “a scam.”

“It is sad to the extent that we’ve got Republicans who are unwilling to do their homework or unwilling to make tough decisions,” Brooks said, referring to Kinzinger’s weekend comments. “If he would do his homework he would understand that the evidence is overwhelming and he can either surrender to the people who support voter fraud elections or he can fight for his country on this particular issue,” Brooks noted.

For weeks, Brooks has said he isn’t giving up his plan to object to the electoral votes of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona.

The challenge has been used by Democrats in past elections, the latest being against former President George W. Bush’s election.

Brooks previously told The Epoch Times that he believes that the Electoral College vote can be rejected, and the election can ultimately be decided by the House of Representatives.

In making the case, Brooks referred to a 2005 Commission on Federal Election Reform report from former President Jimmy Carter and James Baker—a former Reagan administration official—that warned against fraudulent elections.

“They identified the very same problems that we faced in this election that they warned us that this was going to happen,” he said.

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