The Capitol building in Lansing, along with state House and Senate office buildings, was shut to the public on Monday due to “credible threats of violence,” but that did not stop a group of demonstrators from gathering to protest against the Electoral College vote.
The video given by social media revealed an officer with the Michigan State Police standing in a doorway and keeping the group, which reportedly included about a dozen people, from accessing the building or giving him what the group described as an “official sealed envelope.”
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“I’m not going to get into a political debate,” the officer told one of the men, who claimed that the crowd was at the Capitol because it was composed of “GOP electors.”
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“The GOP electors, they here, they’re trying to do their constitutional duty,” one man told the police.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Michigan State Police for a response about the occurrence but did not immediately receive a comment.
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Republicans who would have been voters in some battleground states if President Trump would have won over Biden held counterfeit Electoral College voting ceremonies on Monday, according to Politico.
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“We took this procedural vote to preserve any legal claims that may be presented going forward,” said the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania chairman, Bernie Comfort, in an announcement. “This was in no way an effort to usurp or contest the will of the Pennsylvania voters.”
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Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield affirmed on Monday that he has no purpose of intervening in the way of his state casting its 16 Electoral College votes for Biden, who won Michigan by more than 150,000 votes.
“I can't fathom risking our norms, traditions, and institutions to pass a resolution retroactively changing the electors for Trump, simply because some think there may have been enough widespread fraud to give him the win,” Chatfield said. “That’s unprecedented for good reason. And that’s why there is not enough support in the House to cast a new slate of electors.”
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“I fear we'd lose our country forever. This truly would bring mutually assured destruction for every future election in regards to the Electoral College,” he added.
Also on Monday, Michigan GOP Rep. Gary Eisen was excluded from his committee tasks after he implied protests when the state cast its Electoral College votes for Biden could turn violent.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pointed out during the Electoral College proceedings that some 5.5 million people voted in Michigan’s election.
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