President-elect Joe Biden gestures to supporters in this file photo (AP)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden as president-elect on Tuesday, saying the Electoral College “has spoken.”
The Republican leader’s statement, delivered in a speech on the Senate floor, ends weeks of silence over President Donald Trump’s defeat. It came a day after electors met and
“Many of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result,” he said. “But our system of government has the processes to determine who will be sworn in on January 20. The Electoral College has spoken.”
McConnell called Biden someone “who has devoted himself to public service for many years.”
Don t allow yourselves to be used for riots - Zongo Youth urged
The President of Zongo Youth Patriots in Ghana, Mr. Hamza Sulaiman, has appealed to the youth in the various Zongo Communities across the country not to allow themselves to be used as poodles by Ex-President Mahama and other politicians to cause riots in the country.
In a press release issued on Monday December 14th, 2020, he said, former President Mahama s posture after the 2020 general elections has brought brouhaha as he has refused to accept the transparent electoral results.
According to him, this act from the opposition leader has left a cause to be worried as it shakes the peace of the country and unfortunately the Zongo communities and Zongo youth have been identified as agents to cause mayhem.
Bass cited the importance of the decision in an interview with FOX 11 earlier this month, noting that there will be no Black women in the Senate after Harris departure. I will tell you that I do believe that there should be an African American woman in the Congress,” Bass said. When Sen. Harris is sworn in as the vice president, there will be one African American Democrat, one African American Republican, no African American women.” Congresswoman Karen Bass, D-Calif.
Bass has said she s open to the position. I have a fabulous job right now. I hear my name being put out for a lot of different things, and if called upon to serve, I ll be there ready to serve, she said, later adding, “if I had the honor, we’ll see.”
12:10 p.m. ET, December 15, 2020
Schumer calls on Trump to follow McConnell s lead and acknowledge that Joe Biden will be the next president
From CNN s Ali Zaslav
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, meets virtually with General Lloyd Austin, U.S. secretary of defense-designate, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg/Getty Images
After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell publicly recognizing Joe Biden as president-elect for the first time, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said President Trump needs to “take his cue from Leader McConnell, that it s time to end his term.
“For the sake of the country, President Trump should take his cue from Leader McConnell, that it s time to end his term with a modicum of grace and dignity, qualities that his predecessors took great pains to display during our grand tradition of a peaceful transfer of power,” Schumer said.