Posted on 12/15/2020 1:09:56 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Mitch McConnell signals that he will not back President Trump in his Republican-led Senate.
Despite ongoing discussion in Capitol Hill about the potential of several states being tossed out, leading to a contingent election, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has publicly shied away from President Donald Trump’s fight for election integrity and has instead appeared to align himself with Joe Biden.
In a video on the Senate floor, McConnell said “Americans voted in this year’s general election. Legal and Constitutional processes have continued to play out since then.”
“As of this morning, our country has officially a president-elect, and a vice-president elect,” said McConnell.
Glaringly, McConnell did not mention any of the ongoing election contests or lawsuits, or the several states that sent an alternate slate of Trump presidential electors to the Electoral College.
Instead, McConnell praised the “processes” in the American “system of government” for working correctly, even as widespread outrage over Dominion Voting Systems voting machines continues and the Arizona Senate has announced subpoenas for Dominion Voting Systems machines.
“Our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in on January 20, the Electoral College has spoken.” McConnell added, “So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden.”
McConnell also congratulated Kamala Harris, who he noted would be the first female vice president.
If Pence and the McConnell-led Senate were disqualify enough votes for both candidates to fall below 270, the presidential election would fall into a contingent election, wherein the U.S. House would elect the next president based on a quorum of states. In other words, despite some states sending several Representatives to the U.S. House, each state would have one vote for the purposes of electing the next President.
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No states sent two sets of electors. Only the legislature could approve the second slate and none of the legislatures did. So you have a slate selected in accordance with state law and a slate that just proclaimed themselves to be electors. Unless that second set gets a legislative seal of approval Congress won't deal with them.
Except for judges, this has been his attitude for the last four years.
So does this surprise me? No.
He and Ryan took the biggest opportunity to advance Conservatism
and did almost nothing with it.
EMBRACE THE SUCK, MR> MINORITY LEADER....DUMBASS.
MINORITY LEADER MCCONNEL sounds like a sissy to me.
SMH. God help us.
Neither one of them believes in”conservatism”, Globalism, and put as much graftism in my own pocket is what they believe.
Isn’t he the senator with the wealthy Chinese wife?
Once a RINO, always a RINO.
I’m sure his ChiCom wife would approve.
Fine she’s Taiwanese. Like ChiComs haven’t infiltrated that country...
Well Mitch, if you lose the Senate don’t come begging for votes anymore. Pathetic RINO loser.
Seems like it.
The GOP is now the new enemy, I am no longer a republican Ive burned my card
We are a one party country. Why pretend there are two?
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McCarthy & the Shamrocks.
McConnell afraid he is going to lose in Georgia. He would rather gamble on Georgia, than support the President.
I never ever want to hear the platitudes about DC again from who didn’t vote for DJT.
“we need a businessman”
“we need an outsider”
“we need someone who is for the middle class”
“We need someone who isn’t a career politician”
“How did they get so much money while in DC”
“we need someone who wants American jobs to stay in America”
“We need to stop illegals from coming in”
Exactly. Mitch doesn’t control the contest. The President of the Senate does which isn’t him.
Time to leave the GOP folks
In the 1850s the Whigs and Know-Nothings, like the present Republic Party, had lost its way. When a group of rebels met to form the Republican Party there were doubters. Today, should Trump seek to form a new party, he could do it. Whereas the early Republicans had to search for a Lincoln,a new party would already have its leader. It would take a decade to cleanse the Republicans of their McConnell, Sasse, Romney, Cornyn and like humpty dumptys, but America would be the better for it.
It’s time Trump upped the pressure on this flaccid scumbag and threatened to go third party.
“Minority Mitch” can kiss it.
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