Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said that voting to certify the results of the presidential election will be “the most important thing he has ever cast” in a conference call on Thursday morning, first reported by Axios.
“I am finishing 36 years in the Senate and have already cast many important votes,” said McConnell during the call, according to Axios. “And in my opinion, just in my opinion, this will be the most important one I have ever cast.”
McConnell has been on the hot seat with President Trump since he congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on his victory earlier this month.
“Our country officially has an elected president and an elected vice president,” McConnell said in the Senate floor in mid-December. “I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. The president-elect is no stranger to the Senate. He has devoted himself to public service for many years.”
Trump was frustrated with the Republican leader for not refusing to accept the election results, in line with Trump supporters like Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Wing. And recently, Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Who said he will contest the election results.
McConnell was not found by Fox News for comment.
The president has been constantly attacking McConnell and Republicans who have accepted the results, calling them “weak and tired” in a tweet earlier this week.
“Republican leadership wants only the path of least resistance,” wrote Trump.
And in another post on Tuesday he wrote: “Our leaders (not me, of course!) Are pathetic.”
Hawley surprised Republican Party lawmakers earlier this week when he allied with Trump and announced his intention to contest the election as a fraud. Former attorney general William Barr acknowledged that the Justice Department found no evidence of a widespread election or electoral fraud in the November 3 election.
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McConnell pressed Hawley on a conference call Thursday morning about his decision to reject Biden’s victory certification, but Hawley was not on the line, according to Politico. The majority leader asked him a series of questions that went unanswered.
McConnell had previously urged Senate Republicans to accept Trump’s defeat.
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Trump lost the popular election by more than 7 million votes, which McConnell believes confirms that the Americans unequivocally chose their next president.