{"id":49530,"date":"2021-01-04T14:41:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/2nd-colorado-member-of-house-joins-push-against-biden-win\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T21:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:29","slug":"2nd-colorado-member-of-house-joins-push-against-biden-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/2nd-colorado-member-of-house-joins-push-against-biden-win\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Colorado member of House joins push against Biden win"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rep.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., speaks at the Capitol in Washington. Lamborn on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, joined the state\u2019s newest member of Congress, Republican Lauren Boebert, in saying he will vote against certifying Democrat Joe Biden\u2019s presidential election victory in a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 6. (House Television via AP, File)<\/span>Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lamborn joined the state\u2019s newest member of the House, Republican Lauren Boebert, in opposing certification, a move that deepened the rift in the state\u2019s Republican delegation.<\/p>\n

\"Rep.
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., said in a statement issued Sunday that he won&#x2019;t join dissident Republicans in challenging the states&#x2019; electoral votes, noting that the Constitution doesn&#x2019;t give Congress the authority to do so.<\/span>Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, outgoing chairman of the state GOP, said Sunday that he won\u2019t join dissident Republicans in challenging key states\u2019 Electoral College votes. He said the Constitution doesn\u2019t give Congress the authority to do so.<\/p>\n

Congress is set to meet in a joint session Wednesday intended to take the final step in certifying Biden\u2019s win following numerous failed court challenges by President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign seeking to undo vote tallies in key states. Biden is set to be inaugurated Jan. 20.<\/p>\n

Trump has enlisted support from at least a dozen Republican senators and roughly 100 House Republicans to challenge the vote when Congress considers Biden\u2019s 306-232 win in the Electoral College.<\/p>\n

Accepting the Electoral College vote is typically a routine process. But Trump refuses to concede.<\/p>\n

Lamborn, serving his eighth term representing conservative El Paso County\u2019s 5th Congressional District, cited what he called \u201cserious irregularities and improprieties marring the 2020 election.\u201d He said he\u2019ll object to certifying Electoral College votes of Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and Michigan, all of which went to Biden. Colorado\u2019s nine presidential electors also went for Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy constituents deserve to know that the 2020 election was free of fraud,\u201d Lamborn said, despite repeated findings by federal and state elections officials \u2013 as well as courts \u2013 that there was no widespread fraud.<\/p>\n

\"Rep.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., center, smiles after joining other freshman Republican House members for a group photo at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021.<\/span>Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Boebert has parroted Trump\u2019s unfounded claims that the election was stolen and supports his refusal to concede.<\/p>\n

Buck, serving his fourth term in Colorado\u2019s expansive 4th District, claimed there were troubling irregularities in the six battleground states without offering evidence. But he rejected the dissidents\u2019 strategy, saying only the states have authority to appoint electors.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress has only the narrow role in the presidential election process. Its job is to count the electors submitted by the states, not to determine which electors the states should have sent,\u201d Buck said in a statement co-signed by six Republican House members.<\/p>\n

Colorado\u2019s Democratic attorney general, Phil Weiser, joined elected officials in Wisconsin and Arizona on Monday in condemning the unprecedented move against Biden as undermining the democratic process.<\/p>\n

Along with the Constitution, Weiser cited a failed Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn results in four swing states, as well as a Supreme Court ruling reasserting the states\u2019 authority over the makeup of their Electoral College votes.<\/p>\n

In a conference call for reporters organized by the Voter Protection Program, a bipartisan, nonprofit group, Weiser called the dissident effort \u201can affront to the rule of law. It\u2019s a threat to our democratic process. \u2026 I\u2019m disheartened by how many people have signed on to this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., speaks at the Capitol in Washington. Lamborn on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, joined the state\u2019s newest member of Congress, Republican Lauren Boebert, in saying he will vote against certifying Democrat Joe Biden\u2019s presidential election victory in a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 6. (House Television via AP, File)Associated Press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49530"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}