Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US presidential election, making him the highest-ranking Republican yet to break with Donald Trump, who has refused to concede.
Mr McConnell, the Republican majority leader in the Senate, said on Tuesday that the US “has officially a president-elect and a vice-president elect” following a meeting of the Electoral College on Monday.
“Many of us hoped that the presidential election would yield a different result, but our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in on January 20,” added Mr McConnell, a senator from Kentucky.
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