Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell will not recognize Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the new president and vice president of the United States.
He said this during a speech in the Senate on Monday.
McConnell repeatedly pointed out that President Trump has every right to take legal action against what the president suspects is electoral fraud:
- The president has a 100 percent right to investigate the allegations of irregularities.
Let us now not preach on how the President should happily accept the preliminary election results from the same characters who have just spent four years refusing to accept the outcome of the last election.
He further emphasized that the election has not, officially seen, been decided.
"Illegal votes to be counted"
- No states have yet announced a final election result, and we have at least one or two states that are in the process of a recalculation.
McConnell did not go into great detail about the Trump administration's position in the lawsuits, but said it was moving in at least five states.
- In the US, all legal votes must be counted and all illegal votes counted away.
The process should be transparent and should be observed by all parties.
We have a system for this, he said.
McConnell also aimed a boot at the media, suggesting that through his reporting, they had too early established that Biden had won the election:
- The election forecasts and comments from the press should not have any veto power over citizens' legal rights, including the president's.