Eleven US Republicans, including sitting senators and senators-elect, issued a joint statement regarding the Electoral College certification process. Though brief, their statement clearly indicated their plans to contest the legally-certified election of President-elect Joe Biden. Their mission is to substitute the electoral votes of certain states to keep Trump as president.

The statement was written and shared by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), James Lankford (R-Oklahoma), Steve Daines (R-Montana), John Kennedy (R-Louisiana), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), and Mike Braun (R- Indiana), and Senators-elect Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama).

Before the statement was released, a lawsuit claiming the traditional, ongoing Democratic system of states' electoral votes was 'unconstitutional' was filed by the eleven Republicans. Their suit was quickly dismissed, as were 60 other lawsuits brought before numerous judges by President Trump and his team of attorneys, who lost every fight due to lack of evidence, among other issues.

The joint statement made by the Republicans said, “These are matters worthy of the Congress, and entrusted to us to defend. We do not take this action lightly. We are acting not to thwart the democratic process, but rather to protect it. And every one of us should act together to ensure that the election was lawfully conducted under the Constitution and to do everything we can to restore faith in our Democracy.’

Also included in the statement is information from a public survey, not about the legality of the presidential election votes but instead about ‘public opinion.’

The Reuters/Ipsos survey claims “among 1,346 persons surveyed, 39 percent of Americans (strongly or somewhat) believe that “the election was rigged.”

In contrast within the same survey results, however, the opposite results were also reported, stating “73% of Americans believing that Joe Biden won the presidential election.”

Since Trump lost his presidential election by over seven million votes, he has continuously claimed the election was "rigged" and that he actually won by a great majority.

Yet in a nation deeply divided, millions of Trump’s supporters still consider him their president, in spite of the US Democracy’s clear rules of electing presidents based upon the winner chosen by American voters.

As the law stands, when a representative and senator protest the states' electoral votes, both chambers are required to provide up to two hours to debate the protest's merits.

Each speaker can then only have five minutes to argue before a vote is taken, in both the Senate and House, as to whether the states' electoral votes should be accepted and counted.

The only legal way the states' electoral votes will be overturned is if a majority of the chambers agree not to certify them, which is highly unlikely, and based on party lines, statistically impossible.