The heated partisan politics of Capitol Hill will jump to scorching on Wednesday, when President Trump‘s staunchest Republican allies will launch a formal, public and futile effort to keep him in power by overturning the results of November’s election.
Trump’s allegations of rampant voter fraud have been debunked by the states and rejected by the courts. But that hasn’t stopped more than 100 GOP loyalists in the House and Senate from backing his bid to toss out the vote tallies of certain battleground states.
The extraordinary gambit has convulsed the Capitol in the final days of Trump’s reign and cleaved the GOP into warring factions — divisions that will bear long-lasting implications for both the future direction of the Republican Party and the success of the ambitious figures scrambling to lead it into a post-Trump world. Continue reading.