Trump Supporters Ratchet Up Dangerous Rhetoric After McConnell Floor Speech


It may have been over a month late, but Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a Senate floor speech on Tuesday finally acknowledged and congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris for their election win over Donald Trump.
Some thought McConnell’s words, coming the day after the Electoral College certified the Biden/Harris ticket’s landslide victory, could have been a signal to other Trump election loss deniers to finally admit reality. Turns out, not so fast.
As White House press secretary/Trump campaign spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany continues to insist that Trump still has legal options to pursue to overturn the election, some Republican lawmakers are calling for ever increasingly drastic and dangerous efforts to keep Biden from being sworn in on Jan. 20.

Another Republican state legislator, Sen. Amanda Chase of Virginia, echoed Steinburg’s call for martial law. Chase has announced her candidacy for governor of Virginia.
According to the most recent Washington Post tally, only 37 out of the 249 Republicans in Congress had publicly noted that Biden won. Most of those deniers probably fear being mean-tweeted by Trump, as McConnell was early Wednesday morning.
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