Mitt Romney Compares His Presidential Loss to Donald Trump s: I Didn t Go Out and Say Fraud
On 12/15/20 at 11:09 AM EST
Senator Mitt Romney called out President Donald Trump again for claiming election fraud even after 306 electors formalized President-elect Joe Biden s victory on Monday. You know, I think the biggest concern that I have is that people here genuinely believe that somehow this election was stolen, and there s no evidence of that. The president was saying it was stolen even before Election Day happened. He said if he loses, it would be fraud. No one knows that, Romney told CNBC on Monday night.
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Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, pictured at the Capitol on Friday, acknowledged Monday that the Electoral College confirms Joe Biden as president-elect. Several Republicans had held out on doing so until now. Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images
With the Electoral College votes now complete, a new wave of Senate Republicans are acknowledging what s been clear for weeks: Joe Biden is the president-elect.
In the days after the Nov. 3 election, only a handful of GOP senators mostly moderates recognized the win for Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Since then, many of the chamber s Republicans have deferred to President Trump s legal challenges instead.
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.
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Stuart Jeff Rabner, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, swears in electors of state Electoral College.
A third of the mail-in ballots rejected in last month’s general election in New Jersey were disqualified due to signature mismatches. Another 40% did not count because of problems related to the ballot envelope certificate, according to a NJ Spotlight News analysis of the state’s vote-by-mail database.
Overall, about 66,500 ballots were rejected, or 1.4% of those cast in November.
The results of the election were certified last week by the state Board of Canvassers. Acting on those results Monday, the 14 New Jersey members of the Electoral College cast all of their votes for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The state’s contingent met in the Assembly chambers in the State House in Trenton and conducted their business in less than 20 minutes in a