Although it took days for experts to call the presidential election for Joe Biden, many Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump say media outlets are jumping the gun, as counting continues in several states.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C. 10th District), said every election has a process and until it has been seen through, a winner should not be declared in the race for the White House. He went on to explain the process of states undergoing a canvas of results after the ballots are counted.
"Once we have that canvas and we have a certification of the election, then we'll know," McHenry told Cheddar.
"At the end of this process, I want the American people to know their president was duly and officially and legally elected president."
While Americans await the final word from both election officials and courts where the president has filed lawsuits questioning the validity of the vote counting process, McHenry acknowledged that the final outcome will likely stay in favor of Biden.
Even as Trump appears to have lost the election, the Republican party was able to garner support it had not seen in previous years with more than 70 million Americans turning out to vote for the president and drawing in additional votes further down the ballot. The GOP was able to pick up five seats in the House of Representatives with at least one runoff set to take place, a move McHenry attributes to Republicans "staying focused on the issues."
"America did not vote for a woke leftist coalition to govern. That's not where the American people are," he added.
"We stayed focused on economic concerns and what life is like after the virus. We focused on reforms that we delivered, and focused on the middle class."
McHenry was among those Republican candidates to retain his seat in the House.
As COVID-19 surges at rates that surpass the peak of U.S. cases earlier this year, stimulus talks are swirling now that the election has ended. McHenry welcomes a deal but said it will likely be a much less comprehensive package than the "$3 trillion of left-wing ideology."
"[Pelosi] does have a weak hand. She should have come to terms with the White House in July for another COVID package, but she played politics. And now she has fewer Democrats going into the House than are in the current House," the congressman claimed.
The Trump administration has asked an appeals court to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors by Monday, before the central bank’s next vote on interest rates. Trump sought to fire Cook Aug. 25, but a federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the removal was illegal and reinstated her to the Fed’s board.
President Donald Trump's administration is appealing a ruling blocking him from immediately firing Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook as he seeks more control over the traditionally independent board. The notice of appeal was filed Wednesday, hours after U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb handed down the ruling. The White House insists the Republican president had the right to fire Cook over mortgage fraud allegations involving properties in Michigan and Georgia from before she joined the Fed. Cook's lawsuit denies the allegations and says the firing was unlawful. The case could soon reach the Supreme Court, which has allowed Trump to fire members of other independent agencies but suggested that power has limitations at the Fed.
Chief Justice John Roberts has let President Donald Trump remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, the latest in a string of high-profile firings allowed for now by the Supreme Court.
President Donald Trump has fired one of two Democratic members of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to break a 2-2 tie ahead of the board considering the largest railroad merger ever proposed.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is set to lead a protest march on Wall Street to urge corporate America to resist the Trump administration’s campaign to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The New York civil rights leader will join clergy, labor and community leaders Thursday in a demonstration through Manhattan’s Financial District that’s timed with the anniversary of the Civil Rights-era March on Washington in 1963. Sharpton called DEI the “civil rights fight of our generation." He and other Black leaders have called for boycotting American retailers that scaled backed policies and programs aimed at bolstering diversity and reducing discrimination in their ranks.
President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a $1.2 billion contract to build and operate what's expected to become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex to a tiny Virginia firm with no experience running correction facilities.
Cracker Barrel said late Tuesday it’s returning to its old logo after critics — including President Donald Trump — protested the company’s plan to modernize.
Donald Trump has a message for critics who think turning the U.S. government into a major stockholder of Intel is a “socialist” move: More is coming.
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook's lawyer says she'll sue President Donald Trump's administration to try to prevent him from firing her. Longtime Washington attorney Abbe Lowell said Tuesday that Trump “has no authority to remove” Cook. If Trump succeeds in removing Cook from the Fed's board of governors, it could erode the Fed’s political independence, which is considered critical to its ability to fight inflation because it enables the Fed to take unpopular steps like raising interest rates. The Republican president said Monday he was removing Cook because of allegations she committed mortgage fraud. Cook was appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden in 2022 and says she won't step down.
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook late Wednesday said she wouldn’t leave her post after Trump on social media called on her to resign over an accusation from one his officials that she committed mortgage fraud.
