In a last ditch effort to overturn the election, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit to invalidate electoral votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Without those electoral votes, Biden wouldn’t become president.
Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., led an effort in the House of Representatives to get support for the lawsuit from his fellow Republicans, asking them to sign a “friend of the court” brief.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., told Karl that Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy initially told her he wasn’t going to sign the brief, saying it gave too much power over elections to the federal government. And McCarthy wasn’t among the initial signatories. But when more signatures were added, McCarthy was included. The California Republican denied having told Cheney that he wouldn’t sign the document, though he acknowledged an aide might have said otherwise.
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected that lawsuit.
The last time Trump spoke to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was right after a Dec. 15 news conference where McConnell had congratulated Biden and Harris on their election victory.
When he returned to his office, Trump called “almost immediately,” according to Karl.
Trump yelled at McConnell, but the Kentucky Republican told the president “the Electoral College is the final word.”
Trump hung up on McConnell in the final conversation the two would have.
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