The Senate voted to override an objection to the results of the November election out of Arizona Wednesday, which was the first state to see a GOP protest against the 2020 results.
Only six senators voted to sustain the objection while 93 votes to overrule it.
The vote came after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol unlawfully on Wednesday, interrupting the joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 election.
Rep. Paul Gosar, Arizona Republican, and Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, objected to the electoral votes out of the swing-state, where President-elect Joseph R. Biden defeated President Trump.
Mr. Trump has urged Republicans to object to the several states where he says there was election fraud. It takes one member of the House and one member of the Senate to successfully protest a state’s electors, leading the chambers to debate the issue for up to two hours.
The Arizona objection by the lawmakers said they protest Arizona’s electors because “they were not under all of the known circumstances regularly given.”
After returning to the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the floor, saying Congress cannot overturn the will of the people adding that there is no proof of massive scale election fraud that would tip the scale in favor of Mr. Trump.
The Kentucky Republican broke with the president, who has alleged widespread election fraud from massive mail in voting had cost him to lose to Mr. Biden.
Mr. McConnell said the president’s examples of fraud have been localized but some of the claims include “sweeping conspiracy theories.”
He noted he had supported dozens of the president’s lawsuits challenging the election, and his ability to use the courts.
“But over and over the courts rejected these claims including all star judges whom the president himself has nominated,” Mr. McConnell said.
Meanwhile, in the House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalice, Louisiana Republican, said the states did not follow the constitutional process.
The objections have fractured the Republican Party, though, political and legal experts predict the objections will fail.
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