A US Democratic and Republican senator issued a statement Sunday asking federal lawmakers to confirm the outcome of the November presidential election in which Democratic Party Joe Biden defeated Republican Donald Trump in office.

Biden Won, Trump Still Fighting: 2020 US Presidential Election

Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3. The competition between Republican Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden was very close in several states, so it was only on November 7 that it turned out that Joe Biden would be the 46th president of the United States. Follow the events and possible consequences of the prolonged presidential election on hvg.hu.

The president was formally elected in December by the so-called Electoral College, whose members cast their vote in each state based on the winner there, which must be approved by the federal legislature, the two houses of Congress, in joint session. This vote will take place next Wednesday. If both a senator and a member oppose the votes of a state, the House of Representatives and the Senate will have a separate debate and vote to confirm the objection. Several Republican MPs indicated this week that they would file an objection, and on Saturday they were joined by dozens of Republican senators, including influential Texas politician Ted Cruz.

In a bipartisan statement issued Sunday, along with four Republican senators, including former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the politicians write that those who want to reverse the election result oppose the clearly expressed will of the American people and their only goal is shake the Americans’ confidence in the election result is already decided. “It is time to move on,” the senators write in a statement.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this week asked his fellow party members not to oppose the election result, and other senators also criticized fellow party members who were preparing to vote against the result of the elections. Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska said questioning the result “hurts the party and the country.”

President-in-Office Donald Trump claims widespread fraud has taken place and has, in fact, won the presidential election. As a result, he has contested the outcome of the presidential elections in court in various places, but has not been able to legally change it, and election officials in the states he has contested claim that there is no electoral fraud, and the federal justice minister has said not. evidence of fraud that could materially alter the result of the vote.



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