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All of us are faced with two choices, both of which are lousy. One choice is vote against the objection. And tens of millions of Americans will see a vote against the objection as a statement that voter fraud doesn't matter, isn't real, and shouldn't be taken seriously.

And a great many of us don't believe that. On the other hand, most if not all of us believe we should not set aside the results of an election just because our candidate may not have prevailed.

And so I endeavored to look for door number three, a third option. And for that, I looked to history to the precedent of the 1876 election.

The Hayes Tilled an Election where this Congress appointed an electoral commission to examine claims of voter fraud, five House members, five senators, five Supreme Court justices, examine the evidence and render to judgment.

And what I would urge of this body is that we do the same. That we appoint an electoral commission to conduct a 10-day emergency audit. Consider the evidence and resolve the claims.

For those on the Democratic aisle who says, say there is no evidence they've been rejected, then you should rest in comfort if that's the case. An electoral commission would reject those claims.

But for those who respect the voters, simply telling the voters, go jump in a lake. The fact that you have deep concerns is of no moment to us that jeopardizes, I believe, the legitimacy of this and subsequent elections.

We can handle the truth. And ultimately the truth is what this is all about. Getting to it, finding out what is real, what is not, what actually happened in this election.

It is essential our entire system rests on the premise that we believe there is a good faith and there is a fairness in the operating procedures of this republic.

Senator Ted Cruz there speaking well to that point. And yet do we feel any better about it today than we did yesterday? No, of course we feel most likely considerably worse.

Why is that?

Let's first start with why people were marching in DC yesterday. Let's start on that issue because it's many things. The media and the focus is on those who believe that this was a stolen election.

And that is certainly a big part, perhaps a majority of all of the concern and anger out there on the streets.

But what else was motivating this? Why do people feel the need to take time out of their lives in a very difficult year with a lot of stresses around us because of COVID and everything else?

Why would hundreds of thousands of people gather together in DC to make their voices heard?

We have been drifting as a nation toward a culture politically, socially, where there is no middle ground allowed. There's no descent allowed.

The rights of political minorities are increasingly trampled on. And there is an incredibly powerful system. One that even goes beyond what you've seen in some of the other authoritarian regimes of history in that it is entirely

capable of leveraging information technology, the global marketplace wealth on a scale that human beings have never seen to brainwash to control to determine.

And it feels like a rigged gate.

It feels as though what we do does not really change very much. And it feels as though we're not allowed to even raise that up anymore and talk about it publicly for fear of being ostracized by these social media companies that I know that we have to get used to this idea.

Social media is not something that kids use now just to say hi to each other and communicate. Social media is a dominant force in the flow of information in this country and around the world.

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