McConnell delivers forceful rebuke of Trump-led electoral challenge

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell denounces President Trump's claims that the election was stolen and says failing to affirm its results 'would damage our republic forever.'

"The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role. We cannot simply declare ourselves the national board of elections on steroids," McConnell said on the Senate floor."The voters, the courts and the states have all spoken. They've all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever.

"Vesting the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide presidential contests would be entirely antithetical to that design."Hundreds of law enforcement officers, including the DC National Guard, have mobilized across Washington to support local authorities during the pro-Trump demonstrations as city leaders are bracing for potential clashes and violence.

 

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