In announcing that he will join a challenge to the electors, Hawley cites Democrats who did the same in 2005 after George W. Bush won reelection. He is right that a small number of Democrats in both houses objected then and forced a debate in both chambers … (1)

… only the second time that had happened since the rules were adopted in 1877. The difference is that objectors said unambiguously that their goal was not to overturn the results but merely to prompt a discussion of what they saw as irregularities. … (2)

… And in that case, the losing candidate, John Kerry, disavowed the effort, conceding that he lost the election and acknowledging that the irregularities were not substantial enough to have changed the outcome … (3)

… even though he was closer to Bush in both the popular vote and the Electoral College tally than Trump was to Biden.

https://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/electoral.vote.1718/

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