{"id":49701,"date":"2020-12-24T16:33:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T23:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boebert-to-challenge-electoral-college-vote\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T23:33:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T23:33:27","slug":"boebert-to-challenge-electoral-college-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boebert-to-challenge-electoral-college-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Boebert to challenge Electoral College vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e049eb35-a284-4287-a803-2d5398214e72&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1966\" height=\"1408\" alt=\"Lauren Boebert recites the Pledge of Allegiance with her mother, Shawn Bentz, left, State Sen. Ray Scott, center, and Sen. Cory Gardner, right, during a get-out-the-vote-rally at the Grand Junction Motor Speedway in Grand Junction on Nov. 2.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Lauren Boebert recites the Pledge of Allegiance with her mother, Shawn Bentz, left, State Sen. Ray Scott, center, and Sen. Cory Gardner, right, during a get-out-the-vote-rally at the Grand Junction Motor Speedway in Grand Junction on Nov. 2.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Barton Glasser\/Special to The Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Congresswoman-elect Lauren Boebert intends to kick off her tenure by stepping into political controversy when she arrives in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican who will represent the Western Slope and Pueblo when she takes office Jan. 3 announced Thursday that she will challenge the results of the presidential election won by former Vice President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Boebert, who asked Capitol law enforcement last month about carrying her Glock on Capitol grounds, said she will object to the results of the Electoral College. In a news release Thursday, the 34-year-old from Rifle repeated claims about voter fraud and technical issues with voting machines \u2014 accusations perpetuated by President Donald Trump without evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people deserve secure and fair elections,\u201d Boebert said. \u201cUnfortunately, the 2020 election was neither of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral College voted Dec. 14, giving Biden 306 votes versus 232 for Trump. The U.S. House and Senate are scheduled to vote on confirming those results Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Boebert would not be the first to object to the certification of Electoral College votes. Objections from members of Congress have occurred three times since 2001, according to Boebert\u2019s news release.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days, several other House Republicans have indicated they would challenge this year\u2019s Electoral College tally.<\/p>\n<p>Boebert repeated unfounded claims that ballots were fraudulent or not properly counted in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia and Michigan \u2014 all states won by Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral states removed voter safeguards during the 2020 elections that violated provisions in their respective state constitutions and the United States Constitution,\u201d she said, according to her news release. \u201cAs a Representative sworn to defend the U.S. Constitution, it is my responsibility to object to the Electoral College results that were recorded under these circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his allies have lost more than 40 challenges to the presidential election in various courts across the country. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a claim from Pennsylvania Republicans seeking to overturn the election in that state, issuing a one-sentence ruling with no dissenting opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Boebert will represent the state\u2019s 3rd Congressional District after beating incumbent Scott Tipton in the Republican primary and Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boebert again repeated false allegations of widespread voter fraud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[233,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49701"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}