>> 538 electors in the Electoral College got together today and voted in their state
capitals in most cases to further make it official that Joe Biden is, in fact,
the President-elect of the United States. He did, in fact, win the general election.
I feel like we, in some ways, cover the same story just in different flavors.
But, again, this is another blow to Donald Trump and his team
who, of course, failed to provide any evidence of widespread voter fraud.
It's abundantly clear that Joe Biden is in fact the winner. And so, what's the next step? Well,
at this point, the ballots will be sent to congress, they should be there by December 23rd.
And then the house and the senate will
deal with it on January 6th. That's when they will be counting those ballots by the electors.
Now, I should also note that well, actually before I go on with possible consequences for
Republican lawmakers who went along with Donald Trump's lies about widespread voter fraud.
Cenk, I wanted you to jump in and share your thoughts about Biden being announced as the
winner, yet again, in this election cycle. >> My first thought is this, down goes Trump,
down goes Trump. Officially, down goes Trump. The Electoral College is voted, it is over.
Joe Biden has more than 270 votes, he will have 306 by the end.
This is as official as it gets. So, no ands, ifs or buts except of course Trump in his
utter humiliating desperation, trying to find a way around it. Sending out as goons on TV to go,
what maybe we'll do different side of things anyway. Dude, it's over, they already voted.
The actual electors already vote, maybe we can get Congress deal it for us. At this point, their
tears are delicious. Guess what, Donald one more time, you're fired, you're fired, you're fired.
Okay, shop tyt.com. I love that shirt. I wear it at every opportunity. I do laundry more often
just so I can wear the your fired t-shirts that I have, shop tyt.com, rub it in his face.
Yes, I'm super happy about it. And guys, last thing before we give you the rest of the story
about the consequences is that, look, the reason we keep telling you about these all
these different stages is because at every stage Trump tries a new layer of the coup.
Now this slow motion political coup has come to an end, they didn't get the memo, people like
Karl Rove got the memo. They're saying, you're beginning to look like a sore loser. Really,
beginning to, okay. But at this point, he looks just downright pathetic, which I'm here for.
>> Yeah, definitely. I mean, we're luckily both now on the same page when it comes to this
coup attempt. Because I think that one of the biggest disagreements that you and I had was
I thought that there was like maybe half a percentage chance that it would work,
but I was already on the camp of let's just clown him.
This isn't serious, it doesn't make sense. So now you're no longer concerned and we can have fun by
dunking on Donald Trump and his goons, we can tag
team it. It'll be a lot of fun. >> 100%, yeah, you know me,
collecting MAGA tears daily for too strong coffee, yes.
>> All right. So, now let's move on to what I think makes a lot of sense
regarding the Republican lawmakers who signed on to Attorney General from Texas
Ken Paxton lawsuit which he filed with the Supreme Court. Arguing that the votes from
four battleground states should have been thrown out because of widespread voter fraud.
Of course, there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud and the Supreme Court totally
rejected the case, right? Which again, further solidified the fact that Joe Biden did win
the general election. Now, there were about 18 representatives Republican Congressmen from
these four battleground states, who signed on to that lawsuit, who were supportive of that lawsuit
and who believed that it was the right thing to do to throw out the votes of their own constituents.
Because they wanted to go along with this ridiculous talking point by Donald Trump and
his supporters. And so I wanna show you who these people are and give you a little sense of what
Representative Bill Pascrell is arguing. So if you look at the list, 18 representatives,
Republican representatives from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan.
And so here's what Bill Pascrell wants to do. He argues that today I'm calling on house leaders to
refuse to cede any members trying to overturn the election and make Donald Trump unelected dictator.
And he cites the Constitution in order to make this case arguing that the text
of the 14th Amendment expressly forbids members of Congress from
engaging in rebellion against the United States trying to overturn a democratic
election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that.
So the argument here is do not swear in these Republican congressmen who signed on to
what Ken Paxton had filed with the Supreme Court. >> Yes, so now here comes a rebellion.
In this case, ironically rebellion back. So,
Pascal makes a great point. He's like, look, it's literally in the Constitution.
You can't support sedition against America, an actual open political
rebellion. And, that's the 14th amendment, obviously, in the aftermath of the civil war.
And so they were passed it to say, hey, you can't commit treason
and then come and be elected as part of the United States of America that you rebelled against.
And in this case, it was pretty close to literal, where they said we don't want democracy. We
do not want you to count the votes of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin. We want you
to throw away all those votes and declare Trump king. And so, they say declare the president
but if you're not counting the actual votes, no, you'd be declaring him king.
So Pascal's right in and of himself, but rebellion pack in a new petition is adding on to that point,
okay? And the petition is at enforcethe14.com, enforcethe14.com,
and we'll put it in the description box below where we have our links
if you're watching this later on YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms.
So, it's basically saying, look, if you guys think the election is fraudulent, well, then
obviously we shouldn't set you in Congress cuz you just told us, your own elections were fraudulent.
We didn't say it, we're gonna say everyone who thinks that elections were fine.
But since you're saying, hey, this election was
totally fake and we should not count it, why would we see you that makes no sense.
We're just doing you a favor by following through on what your demand is. Now in the case of the 18
that are specifically in the four states elected affected, well, you guys all signed
a petition, or in this case, it's not like something that's online. You went to the
Supreme Court and said our elections and these four states were totally fraudulent.
Well, then of course, we can't see you. You just declared your own racist, fraudulent.
It would be malpractice of Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House
to sit at a bare minimum. Even if you put aside 126 overall Republican Congressman,
by the way, there's about two-thirds of all of the Republican congressmen right now, okay?
But the 18 that are in the four affected states that said my election was a fraud,
there's no way you should sit them. We should at least debate this in Congress,
should we or shouldn't we? And maybe if the rebellion pact petition gets a ton of signatures,
it could wake some people up and have them go, yeah, why do we always unilaterally start it?
That's the whole point of rebellion pact. No, we fight back. We should
actually fight back against Republicans. So any highlights the coup they were trying to do,
it is politically savvy, it is the right framing, so that's why rebellionpact.com is doing it
and that's very likely why a democratic leadership at the end will not do it.
But I want to give them the most credit though, to be fair to Bill Pascrell. A congressman who
is not necessarily the most progressive. But one of the biggest fighters in the Democratic
Party and I sincerely appreciate that. >> Absolutely, and I'll just add one
more thing about these Republican lawmaker.
Again, 126 of them, which is
a pretty devastating number when you consider what they're willing to put on the line for their own
political careers and to remain in the good graces of someone who lost the election,
Donald Trump. Even at this stage in my life after covering like years and years of stories
involving self-interested politicians who don't really care to do the right thing.
If it means that it's gonna harm their political careers in any way. To put your name on a document
like this essentially dismantling our democratic process. But also, more importantly, remember,
these are representatives from states where they're advocating for throwing
out their votes, like, I represent you, you're my constituent, but your vote doesn't matter.
Because I'm being bullied by Donald Trump because I'm intimidated by Donald Trump
because I'm scared about what his voters might do. I'm afraid that they might harm
my political career in some way. These are not people who are fit to represent
anyone, anyone because they don't care to represent anyone.
They only care to represent their own self-interest. It's
insane and it's just so depressing to see. Look,
I know what the Republican Party is. I know what politicians are, but at the same time,
if you had asked me to make a prediction or guess whether or not something like this would happen,
I wouldn't guess that this many Republican lawmakers would put their name on a document
advocating to throw out their own constituents ballots, because they're afraid of Donald Trump.
It's just really sad. I mean,
it's a catastrophe, 100%. >> Yeah, and in fact today, just
a little while ago, a Republican Congressman Paul Mitchell said, that's it, I've had enough of the
Republican Party, I'm leaving. And he said despite the fact that I voted for Trump in this election,
I voted with him in Congress 95% of the time, I agree with his policies.
I am deeply right-wing, and I totally agree with Trump's policies. But I didn't sign up for a coup.
He didn't say the word coup. But he said I didn't sign up to destroy our democracy.
And to say to people that your vote doesn't count. That's crazy and I'm out.
But so far, three Republican congressmen that have said that publicly,
they're all outgoing. They either retired or lost the primary, because if you're still a Republican,
the Republican voters love the idea of a dictator. So you cannot openly say that you're
for democracy. If you're a Republican-elected official anymore, unless you're leaving office