It has been a close-run thing. Despite the fact that Joe Biden, the US president-elect, clearly won last month’s presidential election — and this week secured the majority of Electoral College votes required to win the White House — it took 41 days for Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, to acknowledge the result. Many of his colleagues have yet to follow suit. Some never will. Last week, more than half of the Republican members of the House of Representatives signed a petition asking the Supreme Court to throw out the results in the four swing states that clinched Mr Biden’s victory.
这次选举是一次险胜。尽管美国当选总统乔•拜登(Joe Biden)显然已赢得上月的总统选举——而且本周获得了入主白宫所需的多数选举人团选票——但参议院多数党领袖米奇•麦康奈尔(Mitch McConnell) 41天后才承认这一结果。他的许多同僚尚未承认。有些人永不会承认。上周，逾半数众议院共和党议员签署了一份请愿书，要求最高法院推翻确定拜登胜局的四个摇摆州的选举结果。