By Analysis by Gregory Krieg
CNN
January 3, 2021
(CNN)The scattershot efforts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory are coalescing into a movement led by top Republicans determined to exploit a manufactured crisis for broader political gains.
Nearly a dozen more GOP senators, a handful of whom will be sworn-in Sunday, have now announced they will challenge Biden’s clear Electoral College win over President Donald Trump next week during what has traditionally been a ceremonial exercise on Capitol Hill. Their gambit is doomed to fail — they have acknowledged as much — in its immediate objective, but likely to succeed in hardening the conspiracy theory-fueled, right-wing base in Trump’s thrall.
Nearly a dozen Republican senators announce plans to vote against counting electoral votes