众议院议长南希·佩洛西和参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默向国会中的共和党人传达了一个信息:是时候告别过去了选举接受乔·拜登作为下一任总统。
“选举结束了。不是很近。特朗普总统输了。乔·拜登将成为下一任美国总统。卡马拉·哈里斯将成为美国下一任副总统。参议院共和党人:停止否认现实，”舒默周四在国会山告诉记者。
舒默指责共和党人“发脾气”，并表示相信拜登的胜利不会受到严重挑战。
“选举毫无疑问。他说:“这只不过是共和党人发脾气，对唐纳德·约翰·川普总统这样的听众来说，这只不过是一场可悲的政治表演。”。
尽管证据很少或没有证据，参议院多数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell)和共和党人继续支持特朗普对2020年选举结果的法律挑战，拒绝承认拜登为当选总统。
周二，麦康奈尔暗示，他们在玩长期游戏，可能要到12月14日选举团投票时才会承认选举结果。
麦康奈尔和其他共和党领导人继续坚称，特朗普在寻求法律行动时“100%在他的权利范围内”，尽管在受到压力时，没有人能够确定一个会对最终结果产生影响的大规模投票欺诈的具体例子。
“在选举团投票之前，任何竞选公职的人都可以在任何有适当管辖权的法庭上用尽对计票的担心。这并不罕见，也不应该令人担忧，”麦康奈尔说。“在这里的某个时候，我们将最终确定谁在这些州获得认证，选举团将决定获胜者，此人将于1月20日宣誓就职。”
特朗普竞选团队在关键州提起了许多诉讼，但几乎所有诉讼都被驳回，包括在佐治亚州。美国广播公司新闻报道称，总统的一些高级顾问对法律战略的有效性以及以任何有意义的方式影响选举结果的可能性提出了质疑。
尽管共和党人反对，舒默和佩洛西现在正把注意力转移到通过一项冠状病毒救助计划上，该计划目前在国会停滞不前。
佩洛西和财政部长史蒂文·姆努钦似乎接近在选举前达成协议，但这些谈判被转移和蒸发，因为双方仍有数十亿美元的分歧。
“文字有力量。佩洛西说:“当总统讲话时，他的话很有分量，我们最近听到了一些非常令人不安的事情，但数字也有口才。
佩洛西和舒默明确表示，他们无意改变对超过2万亿美元的大流行救济法案的要求。
佩洛西说:“我们在同一个地方更是如此，大流行更是如此，因为看看这些数字。”他指的是全国范围内病例数量的上升。
佩洛西说:“乔·拜登在这次选举中获得的是授权。”。
“这次选举可能更像是一场关于谁能更好地处理COVID的公投，而不是其他任何事情。这唐纳德·特朗普这种方法被否定了。乔·拜登的方法受到了欢迎。这就是为什么我们认为有更好的机会在跛脚鸭获得法案，”舒默补充说。
舒默说:“但愿共和党人停止接受特朗普在选举中强迫他们做的荒谬恶作剧，专注于人们需要的东西。”
Pelosi, Schumer tell Senate Republicans to 'move on' and accept Biden as winner
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have one message to Republicans in Congress: it is time to move on from theelectionand acceptJoe Bidenas the next president.
"The election is over. It wasn't close. President Trump lost. Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States. Kamala Harris will be the next vice president of the United States. Senate Republicans: stop denying reality,” Schumer told reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday.
Schumer accused Republicans of throwing a "temper tantrum" and expressed confidence that the Biden win is not going to be seriously challenged.
"The election is not in doubt. This is nothing more than a temper tantrum by Republicans, nothing more than a pathetic political performance for an audience of one: President Donald John Trump,” he said.
Despite little or no evidence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans continue to back Trump's legal challenges to the 2020 election results, refusing to acknowledge Biden as the president-elect.
On Tuesday, McConnell suggested they were playing the long game and might not acknowledge the election results until the Electoral College votes on Dec. 14.
McConnell and other GOP leaders continue to maintain that Trump is "100 percent within his rights" as he pursues legal action, though when pressed, none has been able to identify a specific example of large-scale voting fraud that would make a difference in the final outcome.
"Until the Electoral College votes anyone who's running for office can exhaust concerns about counting in any court of appropriate jurisdiction. It is not unusual it should not be alarming," McConnell said. "At some point here, we will find out finally who is certified in each of these states and the electoral college will determine the winner and that person will be sworn in on January 20."
The Trump campaign has filed a number of lawsuits in key states, but nearly all, including in Georgia, have been thrown out. ABC News has reported that internally some of the president's top advisers have cast doubt on the effectiveness of the legal strategy and the potential to impact the results of the election in any meaningful way.
Despite Republican objections, Schumer and Pelosi are now shifting their focus to passing a coronavirus relief package, which as of right now is stalled in Congress.
Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin appeared close to clinching a deal ahead of the election, but those talks devolved and evaporated because the two sides are still billions of dollars apart.
"Words have power. When the president speaks, his words weigh a ton and we've heard some things lately that are very disconcerting, but numbers have eloquence, too,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi and Schumer made clear that they have no intention of budging on their demands for a more than $2 trillion pandemic relief bill.
"We’re at the same place even more so, even more so with the pandemic because look at these numbers,” Pelosi said, referring to the rising number of cases nationally.
"What Joe Biden got in this election was a mandate," Pelosi said.
"This election was maybe more a referendum on who can handle COVID well than anything else. TheDonald Trumpapproach was repudiated. The Joe Biden approach was embraced. And that's why we think there's a better chance to get a bill in the lame duck," Schumer added.
"If only the Republicans would stop embracing the ridiculous shenanigans that Trump is forcing them to do in the election and focusing on what people need," Schumer said.
