On Thursday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans rejected President Donald Trump's commitment to a peaceful transfer of power, assuring U.S. voters that they would accept the results of the November election.
Trump refused to make a peaceful
transition in response to a reporter's question on Wednesday, saying he expects
his election battle with Democrat Joe Biden to be decided’ by the Supreme
Court.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Trump
said he did not know that the whole situation, with an uncontested ballot,
could lead to "honest" elections on November 3. "
The Republican president's remarks on
Wednesday, which referred to mass voting by mail, blocked a trend that has
forced several Republican parties in Congress to distance themselves from
Trump.
Despite Trump's rhetoric for more than
four years, members of his own party are reluctant to criticize him, as many
fear political retaliation.
McNeil wrote in a morning tweet, "The
winner of the November 3 election will be inaugurated on January 20. There will
be a systematic transfer, as has been the case every four years since
1792."
Like other Republicans, McCain did not
directly criticize Trump.
By noon, at the height of the controversy,
White House Press Secretary Kelly McKinney said in a news briefing: "The
president will accept the results of a free and fair election."
But over the months, Trump has rigged the
November election and repeatedly attacked Democrats for promoting mass
mail-ballots for voters who are likely to cast their ballots at crowded polling
stations. Taxes do not want to risk contracting the deadly COVID-19 virus.
In an interview with Fox News Radio, Trump
called the mail-in ballots "a horror show," despite the study showing
no particular problems with the voting process in recent years.
Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan
Center for Justice at New York University, said voting arrangements were moving
forward steadily. In an interview with Reuters television, he added: "This
system is not broken. States are improving their voting principles on a daily
basis."
Democrats have accused Trump of
endangering American democracy and further politicizing his upcoming election
to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, choosing the
nominee yet. Will propose to play a role in the results.
Some of McConnell's fellow Republicans
joined the effort to allay election concerns, including Senators Marco Rubio
and Mitt Romney and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who told reporters:
"Regardless of the results, this one there will be a smooth transition.”
Trump, who is set to implicate Biden in
the national referendum, has long sought to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the
election, claiming without proof that mail-in voting would be free of fraud.
Senate President Chuck Schumer called him
a "graveyard threat" to American democracy, saying, "President
Trump, you are not a dictator and the United States will not allow you to be
one."
Senator Bernie Sanders, who lost to Biden
in the Democratic presidential race, called for an independent commission to
monitor the upcoming election.
Democratic House of Representatives
Speaker Nancy Pelosi cautioned against being alarmed’ by a statement from a
president who said she admired independent leaders. At a news conference, he
urged Americans to exercise their voting right and advised Trump that "you
are not in North Korea, you are not in Turkey, you are not in Russia."
Challenge the court
According to political analysts, if the
November election is imminent, Trump could fight the outcome in federal courts
in the hope of providing electoral college votes to keep the White House.
The Supreme Court has decided only one US
presidential election, the 2000 contest between Republican George W. Bush and
Democrat Al Gore.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Lindsay Graham, an ally of Trump who will play a key role in confirming Trump's
next Supreme Court nominee, said there could be litigation over the
presidential election. "The (Supreme) court will decide, and if the
Republicans lose, we will accept the outcome," Graham told Fox News.
"But we need a full-court."
If Trump nominates a conservative
candidate to serve on the Supreme Court, as expected and the
Republican-controlled Senate approves the nominee, he will have six judges
considered conservative and three independent. ۔
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