Sen. Barrasso on Fox: It's not the Congress that elects the President, it is the American people

twitter ^ | Feb 6 | Chad Pergram

[RandFan]

@ChadPergram

Barrasso on Fox: I voted to certify the election and I think Mike Pence did his constitutional duty that day. It's not the Congress that elects the President, it is the American people.

[Bob434]

[[Congress has oversight.]]

Exactly- oversight to make suremthe election was done lawfully. If not they or pence I guess could have refused to certify. Certify so ethi g means the person has reviewed the issue and found thst it didn’t have any problems and was good to go. It was inspected and certified. Pence didn’t even bother to do any of that. There was enough evidence at that point for hi. To say that he wouldn’t certify it because of the issues brought to,his attention.

Pence failed America, znd now he want to run as it’s president?

[rdcbn1]

The founders were all about checks and balances. They felt that the best sort of checks and balances were an adversarial system where the various branches of government jealously guarded their prerogatives from the other branches. The concept of peaceful transition of power has been bedrock of America's system from the very beginning. Having the outgoing, and presumably opposition party, Vice President formally certify and accept the results of the election confers trust in the legitimacy of the election results. Everything in the Constitution was endlessly vetted and argued about. They put nothing in that was pure fluff and the election process was one of the most heatedly debated. We are now into bitterly heated and agenda driven political times . Back in the 1960 election Richard Nixon was VP for President Eisenhower. It was clear that Nixon had valid claim that JFK had stolen the election and it was readily acknowledged that he, as VP, could have rejected the election results and sent them back to audit. He was lauded as a statesman who put country over personal ambition during the Cold War in declining to force and audit . In retrospect, that was a mistake and it's likely the world would have been a much different and probably much better place today if Nixon had become President in 1960 instead of JFK. Elections have consequences and stolen elections have negative consequences.

[Bob434]

[[The real question to focus on is: Did the VP have authority to pause the final electoral count until the question of voting irregularities in certain states was resolved? I believe he did!]]

Exactly! Brassy should have said this very thing. He very likely knows this to be true, and if so, he is trying to not have it revealed evidently.

[FreeReign]

They didn't. Instead, they directed that the electors themselves should sign and certify their ballots and deliver them sealed to Congress. Here are the roles the Founders specified for Congress and the VP: VP: As President of the Senate, the VP is to count the electoral votes delivered to him, in the presence of both houses of Congress.

What happens when there are multiple slates?

[Rappini]

I watched Brasso on Fox this morning and he says the election is over so lets move on. He says his constituents want to talk about inflation gas prices and the Boarder.

[Brimack34]

So if there are fake ballots and foreign voters how is that American voters deciding elections. It is up to states to make fair elections.

[indthkr]

Barrasso is a loyal ButtBoy for Mitch McConnell.

I'm sure he attended every one of Fat Liz Cheney's fundraisers.

[fretzer]

Yep. The “congressman” should go back and study US civics.

[TheElectionWasStolen]

You don’t certify what you know to be fraudulent. That makes you an accomplice.

[LS]

100% agree.

But you’re nitpicking on the legislators, as every state-—that I know of-—says that its electors will be awarded to whomever wins the popular vote of that state. So no, the legislators don’t really choose anything. They ratify the peoples’ choice.

[StAnDeliver]

"All in all, the elector system was pretty brilliant, and interesting that the Founders did not put in a “faithless elector” clause themselves."

Which SCOTUS sewed up tight with Chiafalo v Washington (9-0) and Colorado Department of State v. Baca (8-0 per curiam, Sotomayor not participating).

A powerful statement, mid-2020, that the Roberts Court was never going to consider presidential election cases period. Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar was teed up perfectly, PA had purposefully violated Alito's pre-election Order, and Roberts mooted the 4th vote to onboard the case.

[Bratch]

"It's not the Congress that elects the President, it is the American people."

The never-Trumpers seem to be faithfully reciting the talking points they received this week.

The Sunday news shows are lapping it up.

[libertylover]

the legislators don’t really choose anything.

I'm nitpicking, but the legislatures choose the method of choosing.

[JimRed]

...it is the American people...

It is SUPPOSED to be so. But in 2020 it was not.

We need a system that ensures that every American who wishes to do so votes ONCE in each election, under his own name and in his own district, and a chain of custody is established for every vote. No counting anywhere begins until ALL votes have been turned in; no votes are accepted after the designated day and hour, period.

That still leaves the RATs the tactic of trying to prevent the votes from reliably R districts from being tuned in on time but stops them knowing how many they need to create to pull out a win.