Biden to stump in Georgia runoffs, top Senate Republican ends silence on US election result

A day after the Electoral College confirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, he is set to travel to Georgia on Tuesday to campaign for two Democratic US Senate candidates whose Jan. 5 runoff elections could make or break his domestic policy agenda.
Just ahead of Biden’s trip, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in Congress, ended his silence on the Nov. 3 election results by congratulating Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
McConnell acknowledged their win after six weeks of President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud. Trump has yet to concede to Biden, and many congressional Republicans had refused to acknowledge the victory by Biden, a Democrat.
Biden’s narrow win in Georgia underscored the Southern state’s transformation from Republican stronghold to one of the country’s most competitive political battlegrounds. This was illustrated again in state election data showing that 168,000 people voted early in person on a rainy day on Monday compared with 136,000 on Oct. 12, the first day of in-person voting for the presidential election.