100 - 12 = A Bunch Of Dumbass Republican Senators!

Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz look forward to 2024's presidential election. The shameless Republicans are considering a run for president. This is why their dubious attempt to subvert the election is happening.

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So here’s the new tactics of President Donald J. Trump and the Republicans in their latest attempt to subvert the results of the U.S. election. 

So on January 6, 2021, the Vice President of the United States procedes over the U.S. Senate as the President of the Senate to certify the Electoral College and formally acknowledges the President-elect. This will be done by Vice President Mike Pence.

Cruz's latest stunt is a ploy for his 2024 ambitions.

It will be his job to certify President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

Now there’s a dozen white nationalist Republican senators who want to object to the results. 

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) got Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Sen. Roger Marshal (R-KS) and Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) to join him on this crusade to help overturn the results of the election.

NEW: @SenTedCruz leads a group of senators calling for an emergency ten-day audit of Electoral College results. pic.twitter.com/owjvsgwXt2

— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) January 2, 2021

Pence is winking and nodding this as well.

These dozen Republicans will join 140 House Republicans in a last minute attempt to demand Trump’s claims of voter fraud be investigated.

Biden’s win will be certified by the House and the Senate regardless of the latest stunt. 

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) opposed the Republican senators’ attempt to subvert the election.

Toomey was among the Republicans who punched back Saturday at the movement within his party, which in part centers around attacks on how the election was conducted in his own state. Toomey said the effort by Hawley and Cruz "directly undermines" the ability of people to elect their own leaders.

Late Saturday night, Hawley responded to what he called "shameless personal attacks" and said the debate over the election should occur on the Senate floor not in conference calls or press releases.

"We should avoid putting words into each other’s mouths and making unfounded claims about the intentions of our fellow senators. I never claim to speak for another senator, but I do speak for my constituents when they raise legitimate concerns about issues as important as the fairness of our elections," Hawley said in a Saturday evening message sent to the Senate GOP conference.

In a statement released Saturday, Murkowski said she would "vote to affirm the 2020 presidential election." Romney called the move "an egregious ploy" that "dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic."

And Toomey, who is retiring, said that "allegations of fraud by a losing campaign cannot justify overturning an election." He said Trump's loss in his state stemmed from Trump's narrower margins in rural Pennsylvania and Trump's decline in suburban support.

These GOP senators are breaking with leadership.

Hawley, in his response to Toomey, said the state's mail ballots had not been litigated sufficiently. The two have also been at odds over $2,000 stimulus checks, which Hawley supports and Toomey opposes.

"No one has mounted a substantive defense of the state law under which the November election was conducted. And contrary to Senator Toomey’s claims, no court has ruled on the merits of this question. These are very serious irregularities, on a very large scale, in a presidential election," Hawley said in the message to the 52-member conference.

In a statement on Saturday afternoon, the 11 current and incoming GOP senators led by Cruz said they intended to reject the electors from states where they claimed “unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law” arose until a 10-day audit of the election results in each state has been completed.

“Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and scope are disputed,” the group said. “By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes.”

The group of Republicans insisted their effort wasn’t an attempt to thwart Biden or overturn the election, but rather aimed to protect “election integrity.” Likewise, Hawley said he was not trying to overturn the election.

Lankford, Johnson and Kennedy are all up for reelection in 2022, and the vote will effectively become a wedge issue within the Republican Party. Republicans who vote against Trump and allow the certification of Biden’s election could find themselves with primary challenges. Trump has already endorsed a primary challenge to Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-SD).

Trump signaled his approval of the senators' move in a series of tweets later Saturday. And Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, said Vice President Mike Pence "welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence."