Senator from US Republican Party Lisa Murkowski representing Alaska, demanded that the US President Donald Trump to begin the transitional period of the transfer of power Joe Biden , who announced his victory in the presidential election, reports The Hill.
Murkowski accused Trump’s allies of launching a “pressure campaign” on lawmakers in a number of states to stop the certification of voting results.
On her page at Twitter she called these actions incompatible with the American democratic process and recalled that Trump’s claims and his lawsuits to revise the voting results have been declared “unfounded” by several courts. “It’s time to start a full and formal transition process,” Murkowski concluded.
Lisa Murkowski is one of the few Republicans to recognize Biden’s victory in the 2020 elections. The overwhelming majority of Republican senators and members of Congress do not acknowledge Trump’s defeat or avoid expressing their position, the newspaper notes.
Earlier, Trump wrote on Twitter that he found a way to beat Biden in the elections head of state. He noted that he had enough information about irregularities during the vote to change his results in at least four states. The President stressed that in this way he will receive the necessary number of electoral votes.
On November 3, 2020, regular presidential elections were held in the United States. The counting of votes and the proceedings on this issue are still ongoing. According to the media, the candidate from Democratic Party of the United States Joe Biden collected the necessary winning the number of electoral votes, thus beating Trump. He has already proclaimed himself US President-elect. Trump, in turn, said that Biden was quick to call himself the country’s new leader.