Republican Mitch McConnell congratulates Democratic Joe Biden on US presidential election victory
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Biden to Stump in Georgia Runoffs After Top Republican Ends Silence on Election Results
Biden s narrow win in Georgia underscored the Southern state s transformation from a Republican stronghold to one of the country s most competitive political battlegrounds.
Joe Biden. Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
World16/Dec/2020
A day after the Electoral College confirmed President-elect Joe Biden‘s victory, he is set to travel to Georgia on Tuesday to campaign for two Democratic US Senate candidates whose January 5th runoff elections could make or break his domestic policy agenda.
Just ahead of Biden‘s trip, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in Congress, ended his silence on the November 3 election results by congratulating Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. McConnell acknowledged their win after six weeks of President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud. Trump has yet to concede to Biden, and many congressional Repu
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MCCONNELL ACCEPTS BIDEN WIN: The Senate majority leader congratulated Biden and told fellow Republican senators not to join Trump’s extended assault on the results
Reuters, WILMINGTON, Delaware
US president-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg was his nominee to lead the US Department of Transportation (DOT), making him the first of Biden’s Democratic rivals for the presidency to land a role in his Cabinet.
The appointment of Buttigieg, 38, is another step in a meteoric political rise for the Indiana politician, who showed surprising strength as a presidential candidate.
(The Center Square) â What s in a name? Apparently millions in fundraising dollars generated by sustained engagement, even in a lost cause.
Few Florida Republicans are acknowledging President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 election, but some are, however, publicly recognizing he will be sworn into office Jan. 20.
Gov. Ron DeSantis declined to call Biden the President-elect during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday shortly after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to âcongratulate President-elect Joe Bidenâ for his victory.
DeSantis said recognizing Biden as the next president is ânot for me to do, but hereâs what I would say: Obviously we did our thing in Florida, the Electoral College voted, (and) whatâs going happen is going to happen. But I can tell you, I think a lot of the frustration for folks who supported the president is, we were four years with people not accepting him.ââ
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