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'We cannot simply declare ourselves the national board of elections on steroids': Mitch McConnell gave an extraordinary speech skewering Trump's efforts to overturn the election

Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a fiery speech on the Senate floor Wednesday excoriating President Donald Trump and his congressional allies' to throw out the results of the 2020 election.

"This election was not unusually close," he added. "The Electoral College margin was almost identical to what it was 2016. If this election were overturned by the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral.

"The Constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role," McConnell added, in a rebuke of some Trump loyalists' claims that Congress and Vice President Mike Pence can "decertify" states' electoral votes if they want to.

 

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