The Electoral College objections planned by Mo Brooks and Josh Hawley are shiny, attention grabbing, theater that will (by themselves) accomplish absolutely nothing except moderately delay a Biden win because there are not enough votes in the House and Senate to sustain objections to contested Biden Electors.
In fact, Hawley probably knows the objections are not winnable and he is simply going along to set himself up for a 2024 Presidential campaign of his own by ingratiating himself to Trump’s voter base with a strategy he knows will not work, but will look good on his political resume in a primary.
But Vice President Pence has the best 2024 card of all to play, if he wants to play it.
Should Pence reject Biden’s Electors from the start there will be no need for any House or Senate Republicans to reject Biden’s Electors because Pence, entirely under his own Constitutional authority, will have already rejected those Biden Electors for the House and Senate; and no Representative or Senator will have the power to count back in the Electors not counted by Pence.
If Pence proceeds with his Twelfth Amendment options to give Trump his rightful second term, it would be Pence (not Hawley, or whichever additional Senators join Mo Brooks) whose approval ratings will skyrocket with Republican voters nationwide.
With Trump set for two terms as President and, thus, term limited from running in 2024 and Pence benefiting from popularity with GOP voters that would be second only to Trump himself, Pence would face minor opposition in his way to the GOP nomination.
If Pence does not discard Biden’s ballots then Pence’s political career is over because the Republican base would never forgive the Vice President for counting Electoral College votes that were generated by obvious, blatant, fraud and when it was under under Pence’s Constitutional powers to not count them, and because Trump would be the heavy favorite for the 2024 GOP nomination.
Pragmatically Distributed 