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4 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Statement by John C. Danforth (U.S. Senator, R-MO, 1976-1995) Concerning Challenges to the Votes of the Electoral College
 
“Citing my support for Josh Hawley's campaigns, a number of people have asked me to comment on his decision to challenge votes of the electoral college...
2/ “...Lending credence to Trump's false claim that the election was stolen is a highly destructive attack on our constitutional government.  It is the opposite of conservative; it is radical....
3/“... As one friend asked me, ‘What are my grandchildren to think of America if they are told that elections are fraudulent?’At a time of extreme polarization the populist strategy is to drive America even farther apart by promoting conspiracy theories and stoking grievances...
4/ “... We must reject this strategy and reclaim America's historic purpose of holding our diverse nation together as one people.”

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Portman: “... after two months of recounts and legal challenges, not a single state recount changed a result and, of the dozens of lawsuits filed, not one found evidence of fraud or irregularities widespread enough to change the result of the election...
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Every American should listen to this call between the outgoing president and Georgia election officials.

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Trump: Oh this isn’t social media. This is Trump media.
Trump: We can go through signature verification, and we’ll find hundreds of thousands of signatures, if you let us do it.
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It was always just a question as to which one of the 2024 hopefuls was going to be first to sign up in any way for the president’s campaign to undermine confidence in the election and overturn the results. Cruz said he would argue the Tx AG case in SCOTUS, and here’s Hawley.
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