Cotton calls on Senate Republicans to mislead supporters about election results

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Her. Tom CottonTom Bryant Cotton Trump Acknowledges End Of Presidency After Congress Declares Biden Blaming GOP Senators After Mafia Crossed the Capitol Tom Cotton Calls on Trump to Admit, ‘Stop Misleading the American People’ LAKE (R-Ark.) Calls on Republican colleagues, including Sens. Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyCongress Confirms Biden Wins After Rioters Terrorist Capitol Congress Rejects Challenge To Arizona Presidential Election Hawley Still Objects To Pennsylvania After Capitol Violates (Ma.) And Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward Cruz Congress confirms Biden victory after rioters terrorize Capitol Congress rejects Arizona presidential challenge to Hawley to still object to Pennsylvania after Capitol violates MORE (Texas) – although not by name – for contesting the results of the 2020 election in a way he believed was misleading.

Some senators misled supporters for political gain about their ability to challenge the election results – some even sent fundraising emails as insurgents stormed the Capitol. That stops now – Republicans should focus on countering the Democrats’ radical agenda, ”Cotton tweeted Thursday morning.

Cotton appeared to be referring to Hawley, his potential rival for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, whose campaign sent a fundraising email on Wednesday promoting his plan to object to Pennsylvania election votes.

The email was sent shortly before a pro-Trump gang stormed the US Capitol, temporarily halting the Electoral College vote counting and looting offices and hallways in the Capitol.

Cotton said during a performance on ‘Fox & Friends’:’ You have some senators who gave false hope to their supporters for political benefit, misleading them into thinking that yesterday’s actions in Congress were somehow the results. of the elections, or even some sort of emergency audit of election results. “

“That would never happen, but these senators, when the insurgents literally stormed the Capitol, were sending fundraising emails. That shouldn’t have happened and it has to stop now, ”Cotton said.

He also appeared to be referring to Cruz, who over the weekend led a letter signed by 10 other Republican senators and elected senators calling for the creation of a special committee to conduct a 10-day emergency audit of the election results. feed.

Cotton said these actions went too far, even as he acknowledged that allegations of voter fraud need to be investigated.

“We need an independent committee, which I have proposed and [Sen.] Tim ScottTimothy (Tim) Eugene Scott Democrats Gain Control Over Senate After Warnock Wins, Ossoff Warnock Victory Brings Democrats Within Reach of Senate Majority Electoral College Struggle Splits GOP As Opposition Grows Toward Election Challenge MORE [R-S.C.] has written and submitted a bill to study what happened to electoral practices in the last elections, given the unusual circumstances of the pandemic, and to propose reforms for the future, ”he said.

But Cotton claimed that colleagues and fellow Republicans who went ahead with what he said are misleading allegations, fueled the chaos on the Capitol on Wednesday and also cost the GOP politics in Georgia, where they lost two second elections.

“What happened yesterday is partly the result of the misleading claims of the past few weeks and also what happened on Tuesday evening is the result of the misleading claims of the past weeks that the Georgian population did not count,” he said.

“If you tell people that their vote doesn’t count, that the election has been faked, you shouldn’t be surprised if a few of them turn out not to vote and that looks like it got the margin of victory,” Cotton said.

“The Democrats were found to be a few percentage points more in their strongholds than the Republicans in Georgia,” he added.

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