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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell insisted there would be an orderly transfer of power.
Republican leader Mitch McConnell said there would be an “orderly” transition after the election after the president questioned the fairness of the process. Electoral.
“Regardless of who wins the presidential election on November 3, there will be a peaceful inauguration on January 20,” said the US senator.
The day before, President Donald Trump refused to commit to this, saying, “We have to see what happens.”
Voting by mail is in question, but election officials insist it is safe.
The president is currently behind Democratic challenger Joe Biden in national opinion polls 40 days before the election.
Many more Americans will be casting their votes by mail this year due to the pandemic, and Trump has been questioning the security of the vote-by-mail system.
If Trump refuses to accept the election result, he will take the country into uncharted territory.
Biden suggested that if that happened, the military could remove Trump from the White House.
What did the Republicans say?
“The winner of the November 3 election will be inaugurated on January 20,” McConnell wrote on Twitter Thursday.
“There will be an orderly transition, as has happened every four years since 1792.”
Other Republican lawmakers, including Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, have promised safe and fair elections.
“I can assure you that the situation will be peaceful,” Graham told Fox News.
Senator Mitt Romney gave a more critical response Wednesday, saying: “Any suggestion that the president might not respect the constitutional guarantee is out of the question and unacceptable.”
What did Trump say?
A reporter asked Trump Wednesday night if he would accept the peaceful transfer of power, whether it be “a victory, a loss or a draw with Biden.”
“I was complaining a lot about the ballots,” Trump said. “The polls are a disaster.”
And when the journalist replied that “people are getting upset,” Trump intervened saying: “Get rid of the ballots and you will have a very smooth transition, there will be no transmission, frankly, it is a continuation.”
In 2016, Trump also refused to commit to accepting the election results in his contest against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, which he described as an attack on democracy.
He was finally declared the winner, despite losing the popular vote by 3 million votes, a result he continues to question.
What did the Democrats say?
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives and Washington’s third-most powerful politician, told reporters Thursday that she was not surprised by Trump’s earlier remarks.
Pelosi added that the president “admires the people who perpetuate their role in government,” citing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un in North Korea and Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“But I remind you: you are not in North Korea, not in Turkey, not in Russia, Mr. President … So why not try for a moment to respect your oath of office.”
Speaking to reporters in Delaware, Biden said Trump’s comments on the transfer of power were “irrational.”
Democrats also said that “the US government is perfectly capable of escorting intruders out of the White House.”
Conservatives accused Biden himself of stoking election unrest by saying in August: “Does anyone think there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is re-elected?”
Last month, Clinton urged Biden not to admit defeat early on election night. “I think this will end, and in the end I think it will win if we don’t give up an inch.”
This raised suspicions that Republicans would try to “screw up the mail-in ballots” and mobilize an army of lawyers to challenge the result.
Doubts about the fairness of the November vote arise as another high-stakes political battle rages: over whether or not a new Supreme Court justice should be appointed before the elections.
