What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

“This election was actually not unusually close,” McConnell said. For once, he doesn’t seem to be pulling his punches.

McConnell opens his speech by noting that while he supported Trump’s right to pursue his allegations in the legal system, basically all of those cases failed in the courts — including in front of multiple Republican-appointed judges. “Nothing before us proves illegality anywhere the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election,” he said.

“We are debating a step that has never been taken in American history,” McConnell said about the vote, reiterating that this will be the most important vote he has ever cast.