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Mitch McConnell
The leader of the Republican majority in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, ruled out on Tuesday that the United States would witness an interruption in the transfer of power from the administration of US President Donald Trump, who opposes the victory of his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden. .
“I don’t think we’re witnessing a breakdown in the transfer of power whoever takes over the new administration,” McConnell said, “I think we should stop anxiously rubbing our hands and not act like this is an exceptional situation.
He stressed that things will go according to the country’s mandate, saying: “This term will pass and the winner will be sworn in on January 20, 2021, as we have done every four years since 1793.”
Trump had objected to the US media announcement that Biden had won the presidential election and had said he would file a series of lawsuits to challenge what he described as “fraud” in voting by mail.
For his part, the leader of the Democratic minority in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, said Tuesday that Republicans have no legal argument to file a lawsuit in protest of the media announcement that the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, won the election. presidential elections.
“It seems that there are many Republicans supporting the president in his demand,” Schumer added in an interview with journalists, noting that “there is not a single state that does not have a difference of 597 votes, there are many states that have a difference of tens of thousands. of votes, Republicans have no base. ” For a lawsuit “.
Schumer said Republicans are experiencing “political turmoil, and this will not help them make a case or succeed in court.”
