Ninth District U.S. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth used a Facebook video to explain his vote to uphold Electoral College results.
“Americans spoke on Nov. 3,” he said. “And the counting of electoral votes in the House chamber is not the place for us to overturn what 160 million Americans said.”
In the video, Hollingsworth said he was planning to uphold results before yesterday’s events at the Capitol took place.
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More than 130 Congressional Republicans had objected to results from Arizona and Pennsylvania because of alleged voter fraud.
Hollingsworth was voted into office along with President Trump in 2016 and often sided with the president on issues before Congress. But he said loyalty to the Constitution topped loyalty to the president.
“I know that most of us want to see Trump as president,” Hollingsworth said. “I campaigned with Trump. I voted for Trump. But Trump at all costs, including the Constitution, is too high a cost. We must at some point say that we have lost this election.”
Hollingsworth was one of more than 100 members of Congress who signed on to the Texas lawsuit alleging that election practices in four states were unconstitutional.
This story has been updated.
