U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he would put Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s (R-Ky.) nominees up for a floor vote.
“They (Biden’s nominees) won’t all pass on a voice vote and they won’t all succeed, but I’ll put them in front of the full Senate.” McConnell told Louisville courier-Journal contributor Scott Jennings.
He criticized Democrats for treating President Trump‘s (R-Texas) nominees poorly and vowed he would not return the same treatment to Biden’s nominees.
“First of all, I’m going to be much nicer to him than Chuck Schumer has been to Trump.” He told Jennings.
McConnell’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Epoch Times.
The top Republican and former Trump ally said in a Dec. 15 Senate speech that Biden was a winner in the presidential race despite allegations of election fraud and other irregularities.
“I want to congratulate President-elect Biden,” he said in his opening remarks, adding, “Our system of government has a process for deciding who is sworn in on Jan. 20, and the Electoral College has spoken.”
After McConnell gave the remarks, Trump called on him to keep fighting.
In a tweet early last Wednesday (Dec. 16), Trump said, “Mitch (McConnell), (I won) 75 million votes, a record for an incumbent president. (You) gave up too soon. The Republican Party must finally learn to fight. The people are angry!”
Now that all states have certified their November election results and electors have finished voting, Congress is scheduled to tally the electoral votes on Jan. 6. Several members of the federal Senate and House of Representatives have said they will challenge the electoral votes at the Jan. 6 session.
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has filed election lawsuits in several battleground states, and those cases are still ongoing.
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