Urgent letter from the Democratic Party to Mike Pence to demand removal of Trump from office
Today, Thursday, a number of Democratic Party lawmakers called on Mike Pence to preside over Congress in his capacity as US vice president, and to use his constitutional right to remove the outgoing president, Donald
Trump.
And Democratic Representatives, Ted Liu and David Celine, drafted a letter to Pence, calling for the use of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, against President Donald Trump, due to the riots that broke out in the Capitol building.
And the American network "NBC News" reported, today, Thursday, that a number of representatives in the US Congress are planning to complete the counting of the electoral votes in a safe place away from the riots that swept through the Congress building.
The network said, citing sources, that US lawmakers are planning to complete the vote on the adoption of the election results.
According to the US Constitution, Congress must approve the results of the vote that took place inside the electoral college, which was won by US President-elect Joe Biden, with a total of 306 votes, compared to 232 votes for the outgoing US President Donald Trump.