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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden as president-elect on Tuesday.
It was the first time he addressed Biden with the title.
“I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden,” McConnell said. “Many of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result. But our system of government has the processes to determine who will be sworn in on January 20th. The Electoral College has spoken.”
He also congratulated Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. “All Americans can take pride that our nation has a female vice president-elect for the very first time.”
The electoral college affirmed results of the election on Monday.
USA TODAY s coverage of the 2020 election and President-elect Joe Biden s transition continues this week as he rolls out more of his picks for top jobs in his administration and prepares to take the oath of office Jan. 20. The Electoral College affirmed Biden s win Monday, officially giving Biden enough electoral votes to defeat President Donald Trump. Congress will count and certify the results in a joint session Jan. 6.
Trump has cleared the way for Biden s team to use federal resources and get briefings during the transition, although Trump has yet to formally concede the race and continues to challenge the results.
New Mexico electors support Biden, as GOP sues to invalidate
By MORGAN LEEDecember 15, 2020 GMT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) Democratic electors in New Mexico cast their votes for Joe Biden on Monday as the Democratic president-elect cleared the 270-electoral-vote mark to formalize his presidential victory, amid new local protests and objections by Republicans to the voting process and outcome.
Biden won the statewide popular vote in New Mexico by a margin of nearly 11 percentage points over President Donald Trump. Democratic Party-appointed electors cast five Electoral College votes in favor of Biden on Monday.
That didn’t stop a group identified as Republican Party-appointed electors from gathering in a hallway of the state Capitol to sign papers indicating their support for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, in cooperation with two people who recorded video with their phones. State Republican Party spokesman Mike Curtis said the people were exercising free speech.
Dec 15, 2020
McConnell opened the Senate and also congratulated Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
McConnell noted that the Electoral College has spoken and said Biden and Harris will be sworn-in on January 20th. The Electoral College certified Biden s win with 306 electoral votes this week.
President Trump got 232. Biden also won the popular vote with more than 80-million tallies.
McConnell and other Senate Republican leaders had refused to acknowledge Biden s win for weeks after the presidential election.
President Trump has vowed to continue fighting the election results. Lawyers for Trump and the Republican National Committee have lost dozens of legal challenges, including two at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Applause erupted at the Forum in Harrisburg Monday afternoon as Democratic electors cast all 20 Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
The meeting at the Forum in Harrisburg lasted slightly more than an hour as the electors cast, certified and transmitted the votes in the presidential election. Let us ring the Liberty Bell loud and clear so that it can be heard all over the world, and let everyone know that Pennsylvania is the state that gave the United States its liberty, its justice and its honorable standing in the world, said Nancy Mills of Allegheny County, who was selected as president of the Electoral College.