The Republican plan to challenge the presidential election results rests on these 3 key points

ORLANDO, Fla. — The November election is in the books.

The results have been counted, recounted, investigated, litigated and in December, certified.

In total 81 million people voted for Joe Biden, giving him 306 electoral votes.

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Yet on Wednesday, more than 100 Republicans in Congress are planning to reject these results.

Senior Fellow Paul Rosenzweig notes that not a single court or investigative agency has found any widespread voter fraud.

“There is no merit, whatsoever to any of this,” Rosenzweig said.

The last-ditch effort by Congressional Republicans to overturn November’s election results hinges on three separate points.

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First, Republicans are pushing to reject election results from specific states even though they have nothing to replace them with.

Second, there is the request from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz asking for a 10-day investigation into the election, the grounds for which were eliminated years ago.

“The reason we passed the Electoral Count Act in 1887 is that we had a commission that was a horrible result of the 1876 election, so Ted Cruz going back to the commission model is actually rejecting the lessons of that election,” said Rosenzweig.

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Lastly, Republicans want to have Mike Pence independently select which votes get counted and which don’t: a power he doesn’t have.

“If he did, then what we’re saying is that in 2025 Kamala Harris gets to reject Marco Rubio’s candidacy or Nikki Haley’s or whoever is the then-Republican elected and choose to reseat Joe Biden,” Rosenzweig said.

A challenge like this has only ever happened twice in U.S. history, most recently in 2005 when two Democrats challenged Ohio’s results.

That challenge was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 74 to 1.