Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says on the floor that Trump's claim the election was "stolen" includes "sweeping conspiracy theories." McConnell says "over and over, the courts rejected these claims," including judges Trump nominated himself.
McConnell: "Nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale, the massive scale, that would've tipped the entire election."
McConnell: "The voters, the courts, and the states...they've all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever."
He adds that the election was actually "not unusually close."
He adds that the election was actually "not unusually close."
McConnell: If the election were overturned by "mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral."
McConnell: "It would be unfair and wrong to disenfranchise American voters and overrule the courts and the states on this extraordinarily thin basis."
McConnell suggested an equivalence between what Trump-Republicans are doing now and how Democrats criticized the 2016 election Trump won. He said Republicans shouldn't do what they attacked Democrats for doing.
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