On Monday, Sen. Mitch McConnell celebrated voters endorsing Senate Republicans. In the same breath, he questioned the validity of their ballots if they did not also endorse President Donald Trump.
You’re right. It doesn’t make sense.
A ballot can’t be half legitimate.
Even so, McConnell supports the president’s baseless claims that the election was corrupt, saying he should pursue legal recourse.
On Tuesday afternoon, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo predicted there will be “a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”
That’s right, the United States’ top diplomat is also denying the outcome of his very own country’s election.
The refusal by Trump and his allies to concede defeat places the United States in league with other tin-pot dictatorships, and at a very vulnerable time.
TRY AS HE might, Trump does not have the power to subvert the will of the people.
At last count, Biden was ahead by almost 5 million votes and a sizable lead of the necessary electoral college votes.
Nationwide, election officials have found no fraud.
So to maintain that ballots were fudged in Biden’s favor is an incredible betrayal of their service.
And it would include a big cast.
To start, election officials, governors and secretaries of state of both parties would have had to join hands in a vast conspiracy to subvert democracy.
Then local election officials and poll observers — Republicans and Democrats alike — would have had to see that millions of votes were manipulated or fake ballots inserted into the vote-counting system.
It didn’t happen.
TRUMP’S grandstanding serves to distract from his inability to concede defeat. More importantly, it undermines the public’s trust in an election system that has served the country for 232 years.
The tactic is proving to be a serious roadblock to the transition of power.
With 10 weeks between administrations, the Biden team is ready to roll, and according to law Biden’s staff should be getting access to critical information and filling key positions.
Holding things up is the General Service Administration, which has yet to issue a certification formally stating Biden the winner.
