
President Donald Trump tried to re-enlist Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to his increasingly improbable effort to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden.
The majority leader finally acknowledged Biden as the president-elect this week, a day after the Electoral College voted and hours after Russian president Vladimir Putin congratulated the winner, but Trump called on McConnell and other Senate Republicans to help undo his loss.
"[The Senate majority leader] and Republican Senators have to get tougher, or you won’t have a Republican Party anymore. We won the Presidential Election, by a lot," Trump tweeted. "FIGHT FOR IT. Don’t let them take it away!"
.@senatemajldr and Republican Senators have to get tougher, or you won’t have a Republican Party anymore. We won th… https://t.co/T6EClLu3OY— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1608300872.0
He then reissued his demand for Gov. Brian Kemp to call the Georgia legislature back into session to call for an audit of mail-in ballot signatures, which only the secretary or state can do and which cannot be performed without throwing out all the challenged votes.
"Governor @BrianKempGA of Georgia still has not called a Special Session," Trump tweeted. "So easy to do, why is he not doing it? It will give us the State. MUST ACT NOW!"
Governor @BrianKempGA of Georgia still has not called a Special Session. So easy to do, why is he not doing it? It… https://t.co/HsPo68eQpU— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1608301167.0