New York Magazine: “The chief obstacle to ending the ridiculous Republican refusal to accept President Trump’s November defeat is Alabama congressman Mo Brooks, who is threatening to challenge the electoral vote when Congress rubber-stamps it on January 6. So far, Brooks has been unable to find a senator to join him in that futile gesture, which under the Electoral Count Act of 1877 is all that’s necessary to force a two-hour debate and a vote in each house on a motion to overturn the results. So any senator choosing to take the fateful step in Brooks’s direction is risking the wrath of Mitch and of other Republican colleagues who don’t want to be forced to go on record favoring or opposing Trump’s delusions of a ‘landslide win.’ Who would be that dumb? Maybe another Alabama Republican, as al.com suggested?”

“‘I think that he [Tommy Tuberville] and Ted Cruz are the two best candidates to do this,’ said Stan McDonald, Tuberville’s campaign chairman, during an interview on WVNN-radio in Huntsville on Tuesday. ‘I don’t know yet if or when he will do this. He’s very seriously considering it.’ There’s video available of Tuberville hinting he might take this step in an appearance in Georgia, saying ‘You see what’s coming; you’ve been reading about it in the House. We’re going to have to do it in the Senate.’ And Tubs is getting some encouragement from hard-core conservatives back home; one publication said he could become a ‘national hero to Trump supporters”’if he steps out to back Brooks. It sure would brand him for a good while, since it would be his very first act as a U.S. Senator (he and other new members of Congress will be sworn in on January 3, just three days before the vote Brooks wants to trigger).”