Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, warned that if Republicans retake the House of Representatives this year, they would be able to overturn a future presidential election, Fox News informed.
Thousands of Trump supporters left his event at Freedom Plaza near the White House and stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after then-President Trump repeatedly stated that the 2020 elections had been snatched from him.
As rioters surged over police lines and entered the premises, lawmakers left the facility and briefly halted the certification of the Electoral College results.
Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer while she attempted to forcefully enter the House chamber.
Another individual died as a result of a drug overdose during the incident, while two others died as a result of medical issues.
The majority of Republican elected officials condemned the unrest, despite the fact that several of them voted to overturn election results in particular states.
Objections to recognizing Arizona’s results of the election were backed by six Senate Republicans and 121 House Republicans, while objections to certifying Pennsylvania’s results were backed by seven Senate Republicans and 138 House Republicans.
It’s uncertain whether these Republicans would stick to their guns on those votes.
These figures indicated a tiny percentage of Republicans in the Senate (six and seven out of 51) and a large majority of Republicans in the House (121 and 138 of 211).
To prevent the Electoral College votes from being certified, a majority of the House and Senate would have to vote against it.
Even if the events of the 2020 election were to repeat themselves in 2024, and the GOP had a dominating majority in both chambers, these percentages do not indicate that Republicans would band together to overturn the elections in the two houses.
Republicans cited suspected errors, new voting regulations justified in the name of battling the COVID-19 pandemic, and funds from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a foundation that channeled funds to local election offices that were bankrolled by Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook.
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