Twitter Users Skeptical After Mitch McConnell Promises Orderly Transition
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday sought to reassure Americans with a tweet promising an orderly transfer of power should President Donald Trump lose the election.
Trump the previous day wouldn’t commit to peacefully leave the White House if he loses, repeating baseless claims about mail-in ballot fraud and saying he needs to rush his replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in case the election lands in court.
The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th. There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792.
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) September 24, 2020
But the way McConnell’s tweet was worded made many people on Twitter skeptical. Very skeptical. Especially in light of the Senate leader’s plan to confirm a new Supreme Court justice before the election, contradicting the election-year argument he made in 2016 when the Senate refused to consider then-president Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland.
NARRATOR: “The Senator was well known for lying shamelessly.” https://t.co/RLdvtGLTuO
— Cassandra, Irredeemable Pudgy Nobody (@ChrisWarcraft) September 24, 2020
I totally trust this guy to tell me the truth and not change his mind whenever it suits him and his president.
Lots of precedent of principled, non-hypocritical behavior here.
https://t.co/Or1FmovAnl— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) September 24, 2020
Like trump when #MoscowMitch says something I find it hard to believe https://t.co/fzel7fCRb2
— Eric Garcia (@EricG1247) September 24, 2020
It's not really up to him, but just think about the fact the Senate Majority Leader is out here trying to reassure Americans we won't have a civil war this fall https://t.co/M79zTwlEhp
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) September 24, 2020
