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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

    Pence now ruling from the chair that the Members of Congress sent to the gallery can't even ask how they can render objections if they're not on the floor.

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      2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Pause as the microphones don't work. This is not off to an inspiring start.

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Reading off the president's name as "Donald J. Trump of the State of Florida." Queens, we hardly knew ye.

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      4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Now, Arizona. Pence recites (as with all the states) that this is the only certificate from the state authorities. Gosar & Cruz object.

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      5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Objection leads to groans and applause.

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      6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Pence notes that the Arizona objection is duly made, Each House will now vote. This confirms, as a procedural matter, that Pence is not ruling on the objection himself but is following the Electoral Count Act. In the distance, a cock crows.

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      7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Alphabetically, Arizona is the first disputed state up, but it is also about the weakest case of the close states.

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      8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Because the case in Arizona is so weak, it is possible that some people will vote against the Arizona objection but vote for some of the later objections. But I expect most of the Congress to vote the same way each time.

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      9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Steve Scalise now arguing that electors were not chosen by the proper process, i.e., elections conducted under rules passed by legislatures rather than rewritten by courts or executive officials. Which is true, but there's no proof that this changed the outcome.

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      10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        A good statement by Scalise, on its face, but it is disconnected from reality to just talk about the law and not even bother arguing that it altered enough votes to change the outcome in this or any other state. Also, cited no example from Arizona.

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      11. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Zoe Lofgren is now reading a prepared statement full of generic blather.

        3 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
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      12. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        McConnell comes in hard: "We're debating a step that has never been taken in American history. Whether Congress should overrule the voters..."

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      13. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        McConnell talking about "sweeping conspiracy theories." His statements of support for Trump are basically "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

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      14. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        "We can not simply declare ourselves a national board of elections on steroids." - McConnell

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      15. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        McConnell warns of irreparable damage to the Republic, democracy entering a death spiral. Voice crackling with emotion in a way that is very unusual for Mitch.

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      16. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Mitch: "Self-government requires a shared commitment to the truth."

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      17. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        McConnell notes the threat this poses to states in particular, recites the multiple times Democrats have pulled the stunt of objecting to electoral votes when they lost, hits themes that are consistent throughout Mitch's arguments about elections for many years.

        2 replies 5 retweets 69 likes
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      18. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        "We must not imitate and emulate what we repudiate." McConnell rejects the essential credo of Trumpism, that Republicans should fight like Democrats.

        7 replies 15 retweets 127 likes
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      19. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        "I will not pretend such a vote would be a harmless protest gesture while relying on others to do the right thing." McConnell calls out the charade for what it is.

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      20. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Schumer now with the task of disagreeing with McConnell after McConnell just tore the case for objections to pieces.

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      21. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Schumer is overstating his case that this process is entirely a formality. In situations where there are legitimate objections to legitimate competing slates of electors, this process can matter a great deal. But today is not that day.

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      22. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        As Schumer drones on, Dianne Feinstein has been playing with her desk behind him.pic.twitter.com/4MGpLC7diI

        3 replies 4 retweets 35 likes
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      23. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Ted Cruz teetering perilously on the verge of a mullet.pic.twitter.com/QbTnMZr4UK

        5 replies 8 retweets 114 likes
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      24. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Cruz says that a dangerously large number of people believe this election was rigged. He's right. But he somehow fails to mention who convinced them of that.

        40 replies 191 retweets 1,140 likes
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      25. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        "I am not arguing for setting aside the results of this election" - Ted Cruz, raising the question of what he is doing in raising an objection that serves no other function.

        9 replies 16 retweets 151 likes
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      26. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Cruz moves from lack of public confidence in the election to suggesting a replay of the 1877 election commission, which was widely viewed by the public in its time as a corrupt sham that stole the election of 1876.

        6 replies 9 retweets 70 likes
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      27. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Jonah Goldberg

        The way in which Trump 'thanked' Pence for four years of loyalty is a reminder that everyone who fights for Trump today will eventually be shivved by Trump tomorrow.https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1346891127966715904 …

        Dan McLaughlin added,

        Jonah GoldbergVerified account @JonahDispatch
        What I will never really, fully, understand on a gut level is why people will do all of this for this clown. I get political passion. I get being dedicated to leaders. But I will never really fathom how these people think *Trump* deserves this kind of loyalty and sacrifice.
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      28. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Toomey, like McConnell, makes his pitch to conservatives that the Cruz objection undermines the power of the states. "A commission? Really?"

        2 replies 3 retweets 53 likes
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      29. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        "It's not our job...we'd be federalizing election law...it'd be the end of the Electoral College." Toomey hitting conservative themes.

        5 replies 2 retweets 90 likes
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      30. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Sean Davis

        Also that, as conservatives, we're supposed to be unambiguously against that sort of thing. We're not them. We should not want to be them.https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1346895752577036290 …

        Dan McLaughlin added,

        Sean DavisVerified account @seanmdav
        Individuals using violence to protest the election in D.C. today should keep in mind that you're only awarded a get-out-of-jail-free card for violent rioting if you rioting in favor of media-approved left-wing causes or against conservative causes.
        11 replies 6 retweets 89 likes
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      31. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jan 6

        Reminder: a mob chasing Congress out of Philadelphia is why we have a capitol district in the first place, rather than have our capital in a state, dependent upon local policehttps://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/10/19/the-district-of-columbia-should-not-be-a-state/ …

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