Nearly 6 weeks after Election Day, the Republican Senate leader said the Electoral College “has spoken.” Author: Associated Press Updated: 1:27 PM EST December 15, 2020
WASHINGTON 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 officially affirmed Biden s election win.
“I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden,” McConnell said.
“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 Jan. 20. The Electoral College has spoken.”
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1.) The Electoral College is poised Monday to officially certify Joe Biden as President-elect and Kamala Harris as Vice President-elect of the United States, closing one of the last chapters of the Trump presidency.
At the start of the pandemic crisis, many were wondering how many Americans would vote at all. But those fears proved to be unfounded.
We saw something very few predicted or even thought possible the biggest voter turnout ever in the history of the United States of America.
Numbers so big that this election now ranks as the clearest demonstration of the true will of the American people one of the most amazing demonstrations of civic duty we’ve ever seen in our country.
It should be celebrated, not attacked.
More than 81 million of those votes were cast for me and Vice President-elect Harris.
14:53 EDT, 15 December 2020
READ MITCH MCCONNELL S FULL ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT JOE BIDEN IS PRESIDENT-ELECT
Over the last four years our country has been benefited from a presidential term filled with major accomplishments.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly surprised the skeptics, confounded his critics and delivered significant policy victories that have strengthened our country.
Case in point, back in May when the president set the goal of finding a pandemic-ending vaccine by the end of this year, his timeline was literally dismissed by people who assumed they knew better.
Here was one quote. ‘Trump promises coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year,’ scoffed one headline, ‘but his own experts temper expectations.’
America s preeminent political authority has spoken
Andrew Stiles • December 15, 2020 1:50 pm
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Joe Biden has won the 2020 election and will become the oldest individual in history to be sworn in as president, the
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Free Beacon decision desk has determined.
We are confident enough to call the race at this early stage in the process because the foremost political authority in the country has finally weighed in.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) rendered his expert judgment from the Senate floor on Tuesday by congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and declaring with authority that the Electoral College has spoken.
.@senatemajldr: So, as of this this morning, our country has officially a President-elect and a Vice President-elect… The Electoral College has spoken. So, today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/4S7Xv7otsH