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6 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
BREAKING: Pence will not try to block Biden's electors ImageImageImage
PENCE: "It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not."
Trump is still speaking at his rally and just minutes ago said he'd be "very disappointed" in Pence if he made this decision.

politico.com/news/2021/01/0…
NOW: Pence is in the House chamber alongside Pelosi to begin the certification process, which may still take all night with GOP objections.

politico.com/news/2021/01/0… Image
PENCE also makes clear he will NOT introduce alternative slates of electors, deferring to the parliamentarian on which states have submitted authorized slates approved by a state authority.

politico.com/news/2021/01/0…
GOSAR, of Arizona, lodges the first formal objection, which he says is joined by 60 House members and is signed by a senator. This will force a two-hour debate.

politico.com/news/2021/01/0…

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7 Jan
Rep. LOFGREN, who chairs the House Administration Committee, says the Capitol Police chief incorrectly told her that the National Guard was at the ready ahead of the Jan. 6 session.

"What they told me about the National Guard was just not true."
While she says most Capitol Police acted honorably and risked their lives to protect people, a handful need to be investigated for potentially letting rioters into the Capitol and, in at least one case, taking selfies with them.
LOFGREN explaining her support for a potential second Trump impeachment:

"This is about securing the United States from someone who seems to have lost it. As much as I disagree with Mike Pence, he is living in the real world."
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7 Jan
! PELOSI says the acting Secretary of Defense "has to answer for where the National Guard was yesterday."
Pelosi calls Trump's incitement of the riots "sedition."
PELOSI now going down a list of cabinet secretaries asking why they wouldn't support invoking the 25th Amendment.

"Is it about success in business later? Do you believe in this?"
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Kyle Cheney Profile picture
7 Jan
It's 2:55 a.m. and I just figured out how Pence massaged the rules of the Electoral College counting session to avoid introducing the "rival" slates of Trump electors.

These are the instructions VPs have given out at the start in each of the last 5. Note the difference? Image
TLDR: The law specifies that the VP must introduce all "purported" electoral votes. This year, that might've included the unserious/mock Trump electors.

But Pence worked with the parliamentarian to interpret it so only electors backed by a state "authority" would be introduced.
Note how Pence emphasizes, before introduced each state that not only is the slate of electors "regular" and "authentic," but that the parliamentarian has advised him is the only one backed by a state "authority."

That is not a regular acknowledgment at these sessions.
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7 Jan
PENCE speaking in the Senate chamber: "To those who wreaked havoc in our Capitol today, you did not win."
MCCONNELL: "We are back at our posts, we will discharge our duty under the Constitution and for our nation. And we're going to do it tonight."
MCCONNELL labels today's violence an "insurrection."
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6 Jan
Not a joke: The loudspeakers at the "Overturn the Election" rally are playing the Titanic theme song.
OK, it's moved onto "I Want it That Way" by the Backstreet Boys, so things are back to normal.
People don't believe me: c-span.org/video/?507744-…
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6 Jan
NEW: First thing’s first — Joe Biden will be certified as president sometime tonight or tomorrow.

The interim, however, could be deeply damaging to democracy as Trump loyalists seek to overturn the results and authorities hope to stave off violence.

politico.com/news/2021/01/0…
TRUMP has fueled that fear by insisting on conspiracy theories about his loss and asserting fringe notions that Pence, who will preside today, has the power to change the outcome.

w/ @MZanona @GabbyOrr_ @sarahnferris

politico.com/news/2021/01/0…
The one change between last night and this morning? The doomed Republican effort will take place against the backdrop of a Washington that’s on the verge of complete Democratic control.

politico.com/news/2021/01/0…
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