Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-Ky.) is urging Republicans not to object during Congress\u2019s count and certification of the Electoral College vote next month.<\/p>\n McConnell\u2019s comments were made during a caucus call on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the call, and come as House Republicans are eyeing a challenge to the results on Jan. 6 during a joint session of Congress.<\/p>\n A Republican senator who participated in the call said that McConnell, Senate Republican Whip\u00a0John Thune<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-S.D.) and Senate Rules Committee Chairman\u00a0Roy Blunt<\/a><\/span> (R-Mo.) all urged colleagues not to object to states\u2019 electoral votes when they are received on the House floor next month.<\/p>\n McConnell warned that any GOP senator who signed onto a House Republican objection to a state\u2019s electoral votes would then force the Senate to debate and vote on the objection, putting fellow GOP senators in a bad position.<\/p>\n The GOP leader said an objection \u201cisn\u2019t in the best interest of everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n No Senate Republicans indicated during the call that they are currently planning to object.<\/p>\n \u201cNot that I heard,\u201d said Sen.\u00a0Mike Rounds<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-S.D.), asked if anyone indicated that they would object during the call.<\/p>\n Sen.\u00a0John Barrasso<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Wyo.), the No. 3 GOP senator, added that he hasn\u2019t \u201cheard of any\u201d GOP senator willing to object next month.<\/p>\n “I think that there was encouragement on the phone for us to accept the result, as much as it’s not what we, you know, would have envisioned for the next four years, and to try to do what’s best for American people, which is to look forward,” said Sen.\u00a0Shelley Moore Capito<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-W.Va.) said about the call.<\/p>\n Rep.\u00a0Mo Brooks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-Ala.) has said he will object as part of next month\u2019s Electoral College count, and is likely to gain support from other Trump allies in the House.<\/p>\n But to successfully force a debate and vote on his objection he\u2019ll need support from at least one GOP senator. That\u2019s only happened twice since 1887, according to the Congressional Research Service.<\/p>\n No Republican senator has joined Brooks, though a few conservatives, including Sens.\u00a0Josh Hawley<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Mo.),\u00a0Ron Johnson<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Wis.) and\u00a0Rand Paul<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Ky.), haven\u2019t ruled it out.<\/p>\n