Today, we're going to talk about the Republican Party's final attempt in Congress to reject

the election results, what's at stake in this week's Senate runoff in Georgia, and my

interview with former South Carolina Senate candidate Jamie Harrison, who's been on

the campaign trail for John Oshoff and Raphael Warnock.

What we talk about, whether the GOP's opposition to relief checks is having an impact in the

race in Georgia, and some really, really promising news about the turnout there.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

So we've officially arrived at the final stage in the Republican Party's sustained temper

tantrum, where, as of this recording, about a dozen Republican senators and 140 Republican

lawmakers have announced that they'll vote on January 6th to reject the electors from

certain states.

The GOP senators released a statement demanding a 10-day audit of election returns in states

that they've arbitrarily decided or disputed.

I'm not going to read all of the statement for our own sanity, but here are a few lines

that basically form the crux of their argument.

He wrote, quote, the 2020 election featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations

and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.

Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and

scope are disputed.

By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed

any in our lifetimes.

And those allegations are not believed just by one individual candidate, and said they

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