Thread by @McConnellPress

Happening now ➡️ @SenateMajLdr McConnell is speaking on the Senate floor. Watch live on CSPAN2.

@senatemajldr .@SenateMajLdr McConnell: "Obviously, no states have yet certified their election results. We have at least one or two states that are already on track for a recount. And I believe the President may have legal challenges underway in at least five states."

@senatemajldr .@SenateMajLdr: "The core principle here is not complicated. In the United States of America, all legal ballots must be counted; any illegal ballots must not be; the process should be transparent or observable by all sides, and the courts are here to work through concerns."

@senatemajldr .@SenateMajLdr: "Our institutions are built for this. We have the system in place to consider concerns. And President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options."

@senatemajldr .@SenateMajLdr: "Twenty years ago, when Florida came down to a very thin margin, we saw Vice President Gore exhaust the legal system and wait to concede until December."

@senatemajldr "Let’s have no lectures about how Pres. should immediately, cheerfully accept preliminary election results from same characters who just spent 4 yrs refusing to accept the validity of the last election… And who insinuated this one would be illegitimate, too, if they lost again."

@senatemajldr "This process will reach its resolution. Our system will resolve any recounts or litigation. In January, the winner of this election will place his hand on a Bible. Just like it’s happened every four years since 1793."

@senatemajldr "What we know for sure is that the outcome is guaranteed to delight tens of millions of Americans and disappoint tens of millions of Americans. But we also know that we will wake up on January 21st, still blessed to live in the greatest nation the world has ever seen."

@senatemajldr "And in no small part that is because we respect the rule of law... we trust our institutions... and neither of those things is outweighed by pronouncements from partisans or the press."
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