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Mitch McConnell: Let's not have any lectures, no lectures about how the President should immediately cheerfully accept preliminary…

On the recordNovember 9, 2020
Let's not have any lectures, no lectures about how the President should immediately cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election, and who insinuated that this one would be illegitimate coup.
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Mitch McConnell
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Mitch McConnell criticizes those who demand the President accept the election results, referencing past claims about election legitimacy.

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