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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) began Senate debate over Arizona’s 11 electoral votes with an emotional plea against rejecting the voters’ will.
“I’ve served 36 years in the Senate — this will be the most important vote I’ve ever cast,” McConnell said, his voice breaking at times as he spoke.
McConnell noted that he supported Trump and his bid to contest election results in the courts.
“But, my colleagues, nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale — the massive scale — that would have tipped the entire election,” he said. “Nor can public doubt alone justify a radical break when the doubt itself was incited without any evidence.”
“Voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken — they’ve all spoken,” McConnell said. “If we overrule them, it would damage our republic forever.”
Were elections overturned due solely to unproven allegations from the losing side, he said, “our democracy would enter a death spiral.”
