It has been a close-run thing. Despite the fact that Joe Biden, the US president-elect, clearly won last month’s presidential election — and this week secured the majority of Electoral College votes required to win the White House — it took 41 days for Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, to acknowledge the result. Many of his colleagues have yet to follow suit. Some never will. Last week, more than half of the Republican members of the House of Representatives signed a petition asking the Supreme Court to throw out the results in the four swing states that clinched Mr Biden’s victory.
這次選舉是一次險勝。儘管美國當選總統喬•拜登(Joe Biden)顯然已贏得上月的總統選舉——而且本週獲得了入主白宮所需的多數選舉人團選票——但參議院多數黨領袖米奇•麥康乃爾(Mitch McConnell) 41天後才承認這一結果。他的許多同僚尚未承認。有些人永不會承認。上週，逾半數衆議院共和黨議員簽署了一份請願書，要求最高法院推翻確定拜登勝局的四個搖擺州的選舉結果。