We’re debating a step that has never been taken in American history, whether Congress should overrule the voters and overturn a presidential election.… The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves a national board of elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. If we overrule them all, it would damage our republic forever… If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral…. I will not pretend such a vote would be a harmless protest gesture while
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