As questions continue about whether the presidential election was fair, Republicans are split on whether to support President Trump or the Electoral College.
On Tuesday, Senator Jerry Moran said he would vote to affirm the Electoral College results from last month saying Democrat Joe Biden is President-elect. Moran said a vote to reject state-certified electoral votes was “outside the bounds of the Constitution,” which is something he would not support. Moran said President Trump had every right to challenge the results in court, which listed Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of both the popular and Electoral College vote, but judges — including ones appointed by the president — determined there was not enough evidence to overturn the results.
Moran’s decision runs counter to ones announced over the weekend by Senator Roger Marshall and Congressmen Ron Estes, Tracey Mann and Jake LaTurner, all Republicans, to challenge the results.
Congress has a joint session Wednesday to finalize the results.
Meanwhile, control of the US Senate is still in doubt after Georgia’s runoff elections for both seats. Democrat Raphael Warnock has been declared the winner over Republican Kelly Loeffler, while Democrat Jon Ossoff leads Republican David Perdue by 16,000 votes out of better than 4 million votes cast. If Ossoff wins, Democrats control the Senate — as well as the House and the White House.
