What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

McConnell also seems really, really bothered by the idea that Congress can override the states here. “We cannot declare ourselves a national board of elections on steroids,” he said.

“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.