US Senate nonpartisan lawmakers “Election is over… Biden must be certified to win”

-While 12 US Republican senators said they would challenge the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory at a joint Senate-Household meeting to certify the election results of the presidential electoral group on the 6th (local time), nonpartisan lawmakers said, “The election is over.” He urged him to accept the election results.

Ten nonpartisan senators issued a joint statement on the 3rd and urged fellow Republican lawmakers, who expressed their opposition, to participate in the certification of Biden’s victory.

They said in a statement that “the election is over” and that “at this point in questioning the legitimacy of the 11th and 3rd presidential elections last year is contrary to the will of the American people and only undermines the confidence of Americans in the already decided election results.” .

“The voters have expressed their intentions, and Congress must fulfill its responsibility to certify the election results,” he said. “Now is the time to move forward.” This statement includes Democrats Joe Manchin (West Virginia), Mark Warner (Virginia), Jean Shahin (New Hampshire), Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire), Dick Durbin (Illinois), independent Angus King (Maine), as well as Republican Susan Collins (Maine), Bill Cassidy (Louisiana), Lisa Murkausky (Alaska), and Mitt Romney (Utah) were also involved. The statement came a day after 11 Republican senators said they would oppose parliamentary election certification. In a statement the day before, Congressman Ted Cruz and others repeatedly asserted the allegations of’election manipulation’, demanding that the state should conduct an emergency audit for ten days in the conflicting state and approve the change of the election results if necessary.

Prior to this, Republican Senator Josh Holly also said that he had objected at a joint parliamentary meeting.

In last year’s 11.3 US presidential election, Biden won 306 electors and President Donald Trump secured 232 electors. The same result was officially approved in the electoral college election on the 14th of last month. Pro-Trump, Attorney General William Barr, has also announced that there have been no widespread election frauds that could change the election results.

Nevertheless, President Trump continues to protest against the presidential election, insisting on “election fraud”.

The results of the US presidential election will be finalized when the results of the electoral corps election are verified at a congressional joint meeting on the 6th. If the Senate or the House of Representatives disagrees, the two sides will each stop counting electoral votes and discuss the matter for up to two hours. In order to reverse the results, the majority of the House and Senate must agree. For this reason, even if there are some negative votes, the chances of biden’s victory overturning are low, the US media predicts.

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