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US senator Ted Cruz leads likely futile Republican push to object to Joe Biden’s win
US senator Ted Cruz says he will spearhead a drive by nearly a dozen Republican senators to challenge president-elect Joe Biden’s victory when electoral college results are tallied in Congress on January 6.
Key points:
- The senators say Congress should immediately appoint a commission to audit election results
- It was not immediately clear which states would be subject to the proposed audit
- Several Republicans senators say they do not support efforts to derail the certification of the vote
Mr Cruz’s effort — a largely symbolic move that has virtually no chance of preventing Mr Biden from taking office — is in defiance of Senate Republican leaders, who have argued the Senate’s role in certifying the election is largely ceremonial and had…
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