President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the Covid-19 transition team advisory board on Nov. 9, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Major American business leaders on Monday urged Congress this week to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump, who has refused to acknowledge his loss in the 2020 election.
Business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Partnership for New York City issued separate statements calling for an end to attempts to undermine Biden’s victory.
“These presidential elections have been decided and it is time for the country to move forward. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris have won the Electoral College and the courts have rejected the challenges to the electoral process,” said the Partnership for New. York City said in its statement.
Congress should certify the election vote on Wednesday, January 6. Attempts to thwart or slow this process go against the essential principles of our democracy, said that group.
Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas Donohue said in his statement that “ attempts by some members of Congress to ignore certified election results in an attempt to change the election results or to make a long-term political point , undermine our democracy and the rule of law. and will only result in further division over our country. “
And the president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, Jay Timmons, quoted in his statement that manufacturing workers have “acted heroically” to produce food, vaccines, drugs and other products to help the raging Covid-19 epidemic. in the past year.
“Our industry has fought to protect our country, and now we are asking Congress to work with us to heal our nation, rather than promote more division and vitriol,” Timmons said.
Congress will meet on Wednesday to certify the results of the electoral college.
A number of Republican senators and members of the House of Representatives have said they will challenge the certification of voters from various battlefield states that have given Biden his margin of victory.
That effort is expected to fail as both the House and Senate would have to reject the election college in Biden’s favor to invalidate the results. Democrats hold a majority of the seats in the House, which would cause such a measure to fail there, and enough Republican senators have said they will not decertify Biden’s victory to defeat the effort in their chamber of Congress.
Trump has claimed, without evidence, that he was defrauded for both a popular vote victory and an electoral college victory over widespread voting fraud.