What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

McConnell — an extraordinarily effective partisan — said he is rejecting Trump and allies’ attempts to overturn the results of the election because Americans can’t keep drifting apart into two separate tribes.

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.