Meet the Republican who wants to nullify Monday’s Electoral College vote

As Donald Trump promises to wage his war against the 2020 election results to the bitter end, a small handful of his most ardent backers in Congress has formulated a far-fetched plan to help him cling to power.

That plan, which runs through officially legal channels vis-à-vis the US Constitution, involves forcing federal lawmakers to vote on scrapping Monday’s Electoral College vote in five states when the new 117th Congress convenes to ratify the election results on 6 January.

Conservatives have been arguing for weeks that there was widespread election fraud in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, and Wisconsin, although the paucity of evidence they have presented so far has led to a string of humiliations in the state and federal court systems.