Pence rejects Trump stance that he can unilaterally block Biden's electoral votes

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Senate debates first GOP challenge to certification of Biden's win

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comes through for us, we will win the Presidency," Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. He also used a rally at the White House to deride what he termed "weak Republicans" who refused to help him subvert the election. "We have to primary the hell out of the ones who don't fight."

But Republicans also entered Wednesday in a deflated state after losing one — and likely both — Senate runoff races in Georgia, an outcome that seems poised to relegate them to minority status in the chamber and dash hopes of operating as a counterweight to the Biden presidency. It led some of Trump's Republican detractors to question the wisdom of proceeding with a process aimed at delegitimizing the election results.

Pence does not have that authority, either under the Constitution or the laws governing the counting of electoral votes, but Trump's attempt to box him in suggests he's seeking to pin his defeat on Pence's required actions.

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