⁍ U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans repudiated President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power.

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⁍ McConnell wrote in a tweet: ‘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’
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told a news briefing: ‘The president will accept the results of a free and fair election

– “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,” tweeted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday, echoing the sentiments of other top Republicans after President Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. Trump declined to embrace a peaceful transfer in response to a reporter’s question on Wednesday and said he expected his election battle with Democrat Joe Biden to be settled by the Supreme Court, reports Reuters. The Republican president’s exchange with reporters set off a fury that prompted several Republicans in Congress to distance themselves from Trump. “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,” McConnell tweeted. Some of McConnell’s fellow Republicans joined the effort to quell election fears, including Senators Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who told reporters: ‘It will be a smooth transition regardless of the outcome.’ Trump, who trails Biden in national opinion polls, has long sought to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election, asserting without evidence that mail-in voting would be rife with fraud. “President Trump, you are not a dictator and America will not permit you to be one,” said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who took to the Senate floor to call the president ‘the gravest threat to US democracy.'”