Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has acknowledged president-elect Joe Biden’s and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris’ victory – despite hoping for a “different result” – following the electoral college vote.
McConnell, a Republican, noted that “as of this morning, our country has a president-elect and a vice president-elect” in a public address on Tuesday, admitting “our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in” even though “many millions of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result.”
The Electoral College confirmed Biden’s win on Monday, leading a number Republican lawmakers who’d previously been reluctant to acknowledge the Democrats’ apparent win to announce their allegiance publicly.
President Donald Trump has yet to explicitly concede. While he has previously acknowledged he will have to leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes a Biden victory, he has continued to claim electoral fraud is the reason he lost.
