Trump Strikes Back at McConnell:

It would be more than five weeks since Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did what many have thought was inevitable, and should have been done a long time ago;

He referred to Biden as the incoming president of the United States.

– Many millions of us expected the presidential elections to give a different result. But the electoral system has processes to decide who will be installed on January 20. The voters have spoken. “Today I want to congratulate incoming President Joe Biden,” McConnell said from the Senate rostrum Tuesday.

Soon after, the two spoke on the phone.

– I called him to thank him for the congratulations and I told him that although we do not agree on many things, there are things we can work on together. It was a good conversation, says Joe Biden, according to the New York Times.

Trump: reject the accusations on Twitter

However, US President Donald Trump does not appear to be happy with McConnell’s statement.

In Twitter writes he who does not intend to abandon the fight to challenge the election result.

– Mitch, 75,000,000 votes, record for a sitting president (by a wide margin). It is too early to give up. The Republican Party must finally learn to fight. People are angry!

Trump, who, without proof, claims that there has been massive voter fraud during the presidential election, does not mention that Biden received more than 81 million votes.

Ask the senators not to protest

In a telephone conversation with his Republican colleagues in the Senate, McConnell is said to have urged them not to protest when the votes of the 538 would-be voters are formally counted by Congress on January 6, according to various US media.

Wondering what voters are? Get the explanation in this article.

It does so because several Republicans in the House of Representatives, the other of the two houses of Congress, have indicated that they can protest. For said protest to take place, it must be presented by at least one representative from each chamber, and then must have a majority in both chambers.

A simple majority is sufficient, but since Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives, there has never been a real chance that such a plan will work. And the chances are even smaller now that McConnell is dissuading anyone in the Senate from participating in a protest in the first place.

Would not answer

The fact that more and more Central Republicans have declared in the last 24 hours that now, after voters yesterday by a solid majority cast their votes for Biden, they have said they must now recognize the winner of Biden’s election does not seem affect the outgoing president.

By contrast, Donald Trump used Tuesday to tweet and retweet the same undocumented allegations of voter fraud that have been dismissed by court after court in recent weeks, including twice in the Supreme Court last week.

His press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, also declined to comment directly on whether Trump plans to invite Biden to the White House, as is tradition.

– The president is still involved in ongoing legal proceedings related to the election, answered questions from CBS and referred to election campaign staff for further comment on them.

He also said he had not spoken to the president about McConnell congratulating Biden.

He retweeted that Republicans will be jailed.

Among other things, Trump on Tuesday retweeted a message from lawyer Lin Wood, who has worked for him, in which Wood writes that the governor and the attorney general, both Republicans, in the state of Georgia will soon end up in prison.

Georgia was one of the swing states that Biden won, and where the Republicans who rule the state have repeatedly rejected Trump’s claims of cheating and that he was the real winner.

And the incoming president is in Georgia Tuesday night, where two Senate elections will be held on January 5.

Both options can be crucial in knowing how much Joe Biden can accomplish in his early years as president. If Democrats win both elections, they will control both houses of Congress. If the Republicans win at least one of them, they will keep the majority in the Senate.

– I feel like I have won three times

In a speech in Atlanta, Biden emphasized the importance of winning both re-elections.

– You must give a record number of votes again. Yes, you still have to vote as if your life depends on it, because it does, he said.

Biden also made a clear contribution to Trump’s failed attempt to turn the tide of the state.

“I’m starting to feel like I’ve won Georgia three times,” he smiled.