Vol. 36, No. 24

December 21, 2020

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Senate Majority Leader Acknowledges President’s Right to Question Election Results

Mitch McConnell right to question election results
Mitch McConnell

“President Trump is 100 percent within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options. Let’s not have any lectures about how the president should immediately and cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election.”

In a November 9 speech delivered while on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pointed to the hypocrisy of some Democrats who have never fully accepted Donald Trump winning the presidency in 2016.

Outside Money for Her Opponent Led to Victory for Maine’s Veteran GOP Senator

“When it first started, the race was exciting and fun. But by the end, it was muddy and dirty. My guess is that there were diminishing returns by September.”

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