Donald Trump has appeared to rebuke Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his acknowledgement of president-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 United States presidential election.
The president took to his always-busy Twitter account to write what appeared to be criticism of McConnell's speech on the Senate floor Tuesday in the wake of the formalizing of Biden's victory by the Electoral College.
Trump hints at 2024 run at the presidency during White House Christmas party:“Our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect,” McConnell said, per Politico. “The Electoral College has spoken. So today, I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden.”
However, Trump didn't appear best pleased with this turn of events and shared a news report that referred to McConnell's remarks. In an accompanying caption, the president wrote, "Mitch, 75,000,000 VOTES, a record for a sitting President (by a lot). Too soon to give up. Republican Party must finally learn to fight. People are angry!"
Trump has mounted numerous legal challenges and made countless, baseless accusations of mass voter fraud since the election.
Biden himself recently castigated Trump over his conduct since election night.
The president-elect excoriated Donald Trump over his refusal to concede the election in a scathing attack that came hours after the Electoral College officially sealed Biden's victory.
Per NBC News, Biden said the election, which Trump and his supporters have attempted to overturn with numerous failed legal challenges, was "honest, free and fair."
Calling attacks on the election and election officials "simply unconscionable," Biden described Trump's attempts to overturn the result of the presidential election an "abuse of power."
"In America, politicians don't take power — the people grant it to them," Biden said. "The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago. And we now know that nothing, not even a pandemic — or an abuse of power — can extinguish that flame."
"In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed," He continued.
"We the people voted. Faith in our institutions held. The integrity of our elections remains intact. And so, now it is time to turn the page. To unite. To heal."
Meanwhile, per The Independent, after being confirmed as president-elect Joe Biden gave a short speech during which he seemed to use Donald Trump's own logic against him and urged the President to recognize his "clear victory."
“Together, the Vice President-elect Harris and I earned 306 electoral votes, well exceeding the 270 electoral votes needed to secure victory. 306 electoral votes is the same number of electoral votes that Donald Trump and Vice President Pence received when they won in 2016,” Biden said, continuing:
“At the time, President Trump calls the Electoral College tally a landslide. By his own standards. These numbers represented a clear victory then, and I respectfully suggest they do so now.
"If anyone didn’t know before, they know now.
"What beats deep in the hearts of the American people is this, democracy, the right to be heard, to have your vote counted, to choose leaders of this nation, to govern ourselves.”
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