Biden campaign manager: McCarthy, GOP will feel pressure from constituents to accept president-elect

President-elect Joe Biden’s deputy campaign manager said Thursday that she is expecting that constituents will place pressure on the GOP to acknowledge Biden’s win in this year’s presidential election.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Kate Bedingfield said that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), as well as other Republican lawmakers, will face pressure from the voters to make the acknowledgment despite many of them currently declining to do so, The Washington Post reported.

“I think that he’s going to feel the pressure from his constituents, just as others all across this country are going to feel,” Bedingfield told Tapper, according to the Post. “I mean, people overwhelmingly voted for the Biden-Harris ticket, but don’t forget, they also overwhelmingly voted for unity. They overwhelmingly voted for a leader who can find consensus, who can make progress, who can actually move the ball forward.”

Some in the Republican party have backed President Trump’s unsupported claims of voting irregularities in this year’s election as well as his failure to concede. McCarthy along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have not yet recognized Biden as the winner of the election.

Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) on Tuesday called for Biden to be recognized.

“Joe Biden has rightfully earned the title of being the projected president-elect and that should be recognized,” he said at the time.