Senate Republican leader supports Trump's election probe

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnel said President Trump has every right to look into potential cases of " irregularities" in last week's presidential election which saw his Democratic rival victorious.

U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), poses with newly elected Republican Senators, left to right, Sen.-elect Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Sen.-elect Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Sen.-elect Roger Marshall, R-Kan. on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S. November 9, 2020. Ken Cedeno/Pool via REUTERS

While four other top-ranking Republicans sided with President-Elect Joe Biden's claim of a fair and fraudulent free election, Senator McConnell failed to give a clear answer of his views on Trump's claim that the election was stolen from him by illegal votes, saying, "Let’s not have any lectures...No lectures about how the president should immediately, cheerfully accept the preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last one.”

McConnel has not yet acknowledged Biden's victory despite him exceeding the 270 Electoral College threshold by an extra 20 Electoral points.

President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options,” McConnell said.

McConnel is among a majority of Republicans who have avoided bluntly commenting their thoughts on President Trump's legal challenges of the election results.

Only Republicans such as Senator Lindsey Graham and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy have come out in full force in support of the president and the idea that the election was indeed stolen from him.

By: Niza Nondo