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Finally, he broke the silence and congratulated Joe Biden.
Now senior Republican Mitch McConnell is also trying to extinguish Donald Trump’s last long-sought hope of rejecting the election result.
In a conversation on Tuesday, he urged party senators not to protest when electoral votes are counted in Congress in less than a month.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been criticized for weeks for not acknowledging that Joe Biden won the presidential election.
On Tuesday, the day after Biden’s victory was made formal in the electoral vote, he finally broke the silence.
– I want to congratulate incoming President Biden, he said in a speech in the Senate.
– Many of us expected that the presidential election would lead to a different result. But our electoral system has its process of deciding who to swear in on January 20. The Electoral College has spoken.
Photo: Caroline Brehman / TT
Mitch McConnell has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the election.
I had a conversation with Biden
Mitch McConnell described Biden as a person who “dedicated himself to serving the public for many years.” He also congratulated future Vice President Kamala Harris, saying that “all Americans can be proud to have elected a Vice President for the first time.”
Joe Biden testified later that day that he called McConnell and thanked him for the congratulations.
– It was a good conversation. We agreed to be heard again soon.
After the electoral vote, more and more Republican names have abandoned Trump and recognized Biden as the winner.
– At some point, you must realize the fact. It’s time to move on, says John Thune, a senator from South Dakota.
Roy Blunt of Missouri, chairman of the committee that manages the new president’s inauguration, also says that he now “runs Joe Biden as incoming president.”
Photo: Patrick Semansky / TT
The electorate has cast their votes and Donald Trump lost.
Trying to tax the last jump
Other Republicans have yet to give up. They see a last resort for Trump when Congress officially verifies electoral votes on January 6.
If at least one senator and at least one member of the House of Representatives protest, the matter is taken up for debate in each house. However, for an electoral vote to be rejected, a majority is required in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, something that has not happened since the 19th century.
With Democrats holding a majority in the House of Representatives, the scenario is already dire.
No Republican senator has yet said they are ready to file a protest. Mitch McConnell also urged party senators on Tuesday not to participate in such a process, says The Hill.
– It is not the best for everyone, said in the group conversation according to newspaper sources.
I got the endorsement of Trump
The one who has thus far led the long-sought battle to overthrow the elections on the floor of Congress is Mo Brooks, a member of the Alabama House of Representatives. He and other Republican congressmen plan to challenge the electorate in the five key states that brought Biden the victory.
Donald Trump previously publicly thanked Mo Brooks for these plans. On Tuesday, he repeated the support when tweeted a Breitbart link where Brooks claims Trump won the election vote.
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