John Cornyn says he won't join growing number of Texas Republicans planning to object to certificati
Source: wfaa/Texas Tribune
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced Tuesday that he isn't planning to object to the certification of the Electoral College vote in Congress, splitting with a growing number of GOP colleagues that most notably includes the state’s junior senator, Ted Cruz.
In a lengthy letter to Texans, Cornyn noted that he has supported President Donald Trump’s right to challenge election results in the courts but that Trump's lawsuits have gone nowhere, and recounts in multiple states have also failed to change the outcome. Trump has continued to push baseless claims of widespread fraud in the election, including at a campaign rally Monday night in Georgia.
"As a former judge, I view this process with the same impartial, evidence-based decision-making as I did my job on the bench,” wrote Cornyn, a former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. “So, unless substantial, new evidence is presented during the challenges to each state’s ballots, I will not object to the certification of that state’s election results based on unproven allegations.”
Cornyn’s position is not much of a surprise based on comments he has made in recent weeks expressing increasing skepticism about Trump’s chances of overturning his loss to the president-elect, Joe Biden. But the letter marks Cornyn’s most extensive explanation of his position yet, and it comes as Texas’ other senator digs in on his plan, along with 10 other GOP senators, to object to the Wednesday certification of Biden's win unless they can secure an "emergency audit" of the November results.
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