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High-level Republicans have urged supporters of Donald Trump to accept the results of the presidential election ahead of Monday’s Electoral College vote.
Voters gathered in all 50 state capitals and the District of Columbia will confirm Joe Biden as the next president of the United States following the Supreme Court’s rejection on Friday of one of Trump’s latest legal challenges to the result.
But with the outgoing president refusing to grant the November 3 election, many of Trump’s supporters continue to believe he was rigged, despite a lack of evidence.
Republican senators on Sunday called for their voters to unify, urging them to turn their attention to Georgia, where its two US Senate seats are up for grabs in the January runoff elections. The contest will determine which party controls the United States Senate.
Bill Cassidy, a Republican senator from Louisiana, told the CNN news channel: “If we are a nation of laws and this is the constitution and this is the law … then Biden will be our next president.”
He added: “I noticed yesterday that the people who said they were supporting President Trump in Washington were talking about taking down the Republican Party. Others claimed to defeat our two senatorial candidates in Georgia.
THE MOST CORRUPT CHOICE IN UNITED STATES HISTORY!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
December 13, 2020
How do states and politicians confirm an election in which corruption and irregularities are documented at all times? Swing State Hustle!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
December 13, 2020
“Our nation, our conservative movement, our party, cannot resist if it is divided against itself. So at some point we have to come together for all those reasons. “
Protests
Lamar Alexander, the outgoing Republican senator from Tennessee, told NBC television: “The courts have settled the disputes. It looks like the voters will vote for Joe Biden. “
He added: “The most important thing for our country, as George Washington said when it was founded, is not the first election, but the second election: the orderly transfer of power. I think that anything that detracts from it is not good for our democracy.
Both senators spoke the day after pro-Trump protesters clashed with police and counter-protesters in Washington, prompting four people to be sent to the hospital with stab wounds.
Trump had welcomed the protests early Saturday, tweeting: “Wow! Thousands of people are training in Washington (DC) for Stop the Steal. I didn’t know about this, but I’ll be watching! #MAGA ”.
And he continued to criticize the outcome of Sunday’s election, tweeting that it was the “most corrupt election in US history.”
Senior Republicans worry that the outgoing president’s fight against the election results could detract from the party’s efforts in Georgia.
Trump has been particularly critical of Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, who has been a staunch ally of the outgoing president, but sparked his ire by resisting his calls to overturn the outcome of the state’s presidential election.
Meanwhile, Trump also renewed a separate fight with Senate Republicans, threatening once again on Sunday to veto a $ 740 billion (610 billion) defense bill that Congress passed last week. However, the bill has the support of two-thirds of the members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, which means they could override his veto should he impose it. – Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2020
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