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Few things provided a better example of the liberal media’s hypocrisy than when they praised something that they pushed to destroy. The latest version of this came from Monday’s
NBC Nightly News, which featured anchor Lester Holt and Justice correspondent Pete Williams celebrating the Electoral College affirming President-elect Biden’s victory. But for the last four years, NBC has promoted the abolishment of the Electoral College because that was how President Trump won in 2016.
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President-elect Joe Biden took another critical step toward the White House today with the vote by the country s electors, known as the Electoral College, formalizing his victory,” Holt cheerfully announced before handing it off to Williams.
Wisconsin
electors cast their votes for president in Madison on
December 14, 2020, the same day the state Supreme Court
rejected a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump s
campaign to undo President-elect Joe Biden s victory as meritless on its face. (Photo: Morry Gash/Getty
Images)
Members of the Electoral
College convened in state capitals across the nation on
Monday to cast their official votes for president, and
despite a desperate
and doomed attempt by President Donald Trump to put
forth a slate of alternative electors, the official
tallies put Joe Biden that much closer to becoming the 46th
president of the United States.
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Published 15 December 2020
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday, dealing a blow to any lingering hopes Donald Trump may have had of reversing his election defeat.
“The Electoral College has spoken,” the powerful senator from Kentucky said in a speech on the Senate floor. “So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden.”
McConnell also congratulated California Senator Kamala Harris on her election as Vice President.
“Beyond our differences, all Americans can take pride that our nation has a female Vice President-elect for the first time,” McConnell said.
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The polls in Florida, Iowa, Ohio and Texas all states won by President Trump were mostly wrong, though Democratic nominee Joe Biden appears to have the upper hand in the race for 270 electoral votes and is the favorite to be the next president.
Biden laces Electoral College victory speech with Scripture and Prayer of St. Francis
‘For where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith, where there is darkness, light,’ President-elect Joe Biden said, invoking the Prayer of St. Francis. President-elect Joe Biden speaks after the Electoral College formally elected him as president, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
December 15, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) President-elect Joe Biden marked his Electoral College win with a religious flair, citing Scripture and the Prayer of St. Francis during his victory speech.
Members of the Electoral College voted in all 50 states and the District of Columbia on Monday (Dec. 15), formalizing Biden’s 306-232 win over incumbent Donald Trump.