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President Trump kept Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the phone for an hour Saturday, using a combination of cajoling, lies, and threats to encourage him to “find” enough votes to overturn the election.  

All 10 living former defense secretaries stressed in an op-ed for the Washington Post published yesterday that: “The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived.”

Yet, eleven Republican senators and senators-elect and 140 House Republicans plan to vote against the joint session of Congress scheduled for Wednesday where President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is expected to be certified.

Has the Republican Party lost its soul? 

Lastly, how will the political power dynamics in Washington play out in 2021?

GUESTS:
Peter Wehner is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing writer at The Atlantic and The New York Times. He’s the author of The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump. He served in the three previous Republican Administrations. 
John Harris is the co-founder of Politico and the author of The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House. He writes the Altitude column for Politico.

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President Trump kept Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the phone for an hour Saturday, using a combination of cajoling, lies, and threats to encourage him to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html">&ldquo;find&rdquo; enough votes</a>&nbsp;to overturn the election.&nbsp;&nbsp;
All 10 living former defense secretaries stressed in an<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html">&nbsp;op-ed for the Washington Post&nbsp;</a>published yesterday that: &ldquo;The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived.&rdquo;
Yet,&nbsp;<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/02/politics/senate-republicans-electoral-college/index.html">eleven Republican senators</a>&nbsp;and senators-elect and 140&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/03/republicans-challenge-biden-electoral-college-454147">House Republicans</a>&nbsp;plan to vote against the joint session of Congress scheduled for Wednesday where President-elect Joe Biden&rsquo;s victory is expected to be certified.
Has the Republican Party&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/cowards-are-destroying-the-gop/617534/">lost its soul</a>?&nbsp;
Lastly, how will the political power dynamics in Washington&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/01/01/ive-got-a-feeling-21-is-gonna-be-a-good-year-491260">play out in 2021</a>?
GUESTS:
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<li>Peter Wehner&nbsp;is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing writer at The Atlantic and The New York Times. He&rsquo;s the author of&nbsp;The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump.&nbsp;He served in the three previous Republican Administrations.&nbsp;</li>
<li>John Harris&nbsp;is the co-founder of Politico and the author of&nbsp;The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House.&nbsp;He writes the Altitude column for Politico.</li>
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