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US SENATE MAJORITY Leader Mitch McConnell has said Donald Trump is “100% within his rights” to question the results of the presidential election.
The senior Republican’s first public comments since the result was declared came as the president’s allies on Capitol Hill have been reluctant to congratulate Joe Biden or pressure Trump to accept the result.
McConnell said the process will unfold and “come to a close.”
Trump has refused to admit to the presidential race and is organizing legal fights, but there has been no indication or evidence of voter wrongdoing or widespread election fraud.
“Our institutions are really designed for this,” McConnell said when inaugurating the Senate.
“We have the system in place to consider concerns, and President Trump is 100% within his rights to investigate allegations of wrongdoing and weigh his legal options.”
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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Republicans’ refusal to defend the election results is “extremely dangerous, extremely poisonous to our democracy.”
He said electoral demands can be valid but must be based on evidence and facts.
“Joe Biden won the fair and square election,” Schumer said.
While some Republican state officials invoked Trump’s mantra that only “legal votes” should be counted, others emerged to counter the campaign narrative and urge voters, and perhaps the president, to support the results.
“The process has not failed our country in more than 200 years, and it is not going to fail our country this year,” said Republican Senator Susan Collins, who won her re-election bid in Maine and congratulated Biden on your victory.
Across the country, Republicans have complained of problems with signatures, secret envelopes and postage marks on ballots, the inability of election observers to examine them, and extensions granted for mail ballots to arrive.
However, the justices largely rebuffed the Republican challenges as the campaign sought to disrupt vote counting while leaning toward Biden.
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