Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell and other top congressional Republicans still haven’t acknowledged Biden’s victory

CNN — President-elect Joe Biden urged the country “to lower the temperature” in his victory speech on Saturday night, but Republican leaders he’ll have to work with in Congress have either urged President Donald Trump to not concede or stayed silent despite no widespread evidence of fraud in the election. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is likely to limit the scope of Biden’s agenda, has not commented since Friday, the day before the race was called, when he called for “every legal” vote to be counted, while House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy echoed Trump’s claims that the election isn’t over yet. While a small contingent of conservatives want to restore faith in the democratic process, Trump’s fiercest supporters have adopted the President’s mantra to “fight back very hard” when he feels personally mistreated. “The orderly transfer or reaffirming of immense power after a presidential election is the most enduring symbol of our democracy.” But Alexander’s Republican incoming successor in the Senate, Bill Hagerty, Trump’s former ambassador to Japan, said that he had contributed to Trump’s legal fund to protect the “integrity” of the election, and retweeted Trump’s statement that “this election is far from over.” Biden triumphed in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania – three states that 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lost – on his way to winning the White House, and currently leads Trump in Arizona and Georgia.