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Cooper: As much as many Trump voters want to change the election outcome, this challenge is an exercise in futility

Associated Press File Photo / Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, is among a group of senators who will challenge the Electoral College results that showed Joe Biden the winner in the November presidential election.
Associated Press File Photo / Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, is among a group of senators who will challenge the Electoral College results that showed Joe Biden the winner in the November presidential election. Associated Press File Photo / Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, is among a group of senators who will challenge the Electoral College results that showed Joe Biden the winner in the November presidential election.

By Clint Cooper 5 min read

A presidential election is terribly difficult to steal.

But that is essentially what members of Congress, including Tennessee Republican U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty and Tennessee U.S. Reps. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Ooltewah, and Scott DesJarlais, R-Winchester, are alleging. Blackburn and Hagerty are among a group of at least 12 senators who plan to object to the Electoral College certification of votes for President-elect Joe Biden during a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has said he will lead an objection to the certification unless there there is agreement for an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission.

The objections are expected to force votes in the House and Senate, neither of which is expected to prevail. Thus, in slightly more than two weeks, Biden will be inaugurated as president.

So is this the last act of a desperate President Donald Trump and his party who want to hold on to power or a sign of the widespread distrust in the federal government and its systems?