Republican Senator Tom Cotton won't object to electoral college votes
The Senator from Arkansas has just dropped this statement, announcing that he won't back his colleagues' push to overturn the election results on Thursday despite sharing their concerns about "irregularities in the presidential election".
"The Founders entrusted our elections chiefly to the states — not Congress. They entrusted the election of our president to the people, acting through the Electoral College — not Congress," Cotton says in the statement.
Cotton is a significant voice here, because he's not only one of Trump's allies in the Senate, he's also viewed as a 2024 hopeful for Republicans.
He got a prime speaking gig at this year's Republican Convention, if you can can cast your memory back to August.
So this is another Republican with clout backing away from the push to object to the results.