A few judicial inquiries by the president don’t exactly herald the end of the republic: Mitch McConnell
Washington:
The senior Republican in the US Congress said on Monday that President Donald Trump has full rights to challenge election results in several states, insisting that such scrutiny would not undermine democracy.
“President Trump has a 100% right to review allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Congress’ first day of a lame presidency , Trump has so far refused to concede Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump insists the race is not over and Republican lawmakers urged the president not to give in, even as U.S. networks projected on Saturday that Biden won the election with at least 279 electoral votes, overtaking the 270 necessary for victory.
The White House has launched legal challenges in several states, including Pennsylvania, where near full results show Biden is ahead by 44,930 votes or 0.67%.
“If Democrats feel confident (major irregularities) have not happened, they should have no reason to fear closer scrutiny,” McConnell said.
“Suffice it to say that a few legal inquiries from the president don’t exactly spell the end of the republic.”
No credible evidence of widespread fraud or electoral irregularities has emerged, according to electoral authorities in several states and the two political parties.
Trump has nonetheless repeatedly asserted that massive fraud had occurred, proclaiming on Twitter Saturday: “I WON THIS ELECTION, A LOT!”
The 2020 races were based on swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina.
Trump and his allies, in an effort to delegitimize the US media’s call for victory to Biden, said thousands of “illegal” ballots altered the results of these razor-thin races.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, urged the president on Monday to “keep fighting,” but he also hinted that the effort may be in vain.
“I would encourage President Trump – if after all of this he fails, we just can’t make it – not to let this movement die, to consider running again” in 2024 and to create platforms that “living movement,” Graham told Fox News Radio.
Most Republicans in the Senate, including several who served for years with Biden, failed to recognize their former colleague’s victory.
Senator Susan Collins has become the third Republican in the Senate to congratulate Biden, saying he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris “should have every chance to make sure they are ready to govern on January 20.”
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