McEnany implicitly acknowledges Biden’s election win

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Sunday implicitly acknowledged that Joe Biden won the presidential election against President Trump.

McEnany, while appearing on Fox News in her personal capacity as a Trump campaign adviser, said that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate if Republicans lost the two Senate seats in Georgia. 

She did so as she criticized Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R).

“False, Gov. Kemp,” McEnany said. “You have the power to call in a special legislative session because right now, if we lose these two Senate seats, guess who’s casting the deciding vote in this country for our government? It will be Kamala Harris. Call for the special legislative session.”

Dead-ender Kayleigh McEnany yells at GA Gov. Kemp on Fox News: “You have the power to call in a special legislative session because right now if we lose these two Senate seats, guess whose casting the deciding vote in this country for our government? It will be Kamala Harris.” pic.twitter.com/IW2o55ohWs

— The Recount (@therecount) December 6, 2020

McEnany was demanding that Kemp force Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to call back a special legislative session to conduct a match of signatures, after Kemp said he was not empowered to call back the session during a television appearance.

The upcoming Senate runoff elections in Georgia will decide the majority in the Senate, which is currently controlled by Republicans, for the next two years. Should Democrats win both seats, Harris will cast the deciding vote as vice president, meaning Democrats will maintain a razor-thin majority.

Trump’s legal team has filed a number of lawsuits in battleground states, including Georgia, alleging voting irregularities that have failed.

Trump, who has refused to concede to Biden, has turned to pressuring Georgia officials to call a special legislative session to overturn the results of the election in the Peach State, prompting significant pushback from Republicans in the state. Raffensperger said Sunday on on ABC’s “This Week” that doing so would amount to “nullifying the will of the people.”

McEnany has not explicitly acknowledged Biden as the winner of the presidential election and has for weeks sought to support Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations about rampant voter fraud in the election in television appearances.

Her interview followed Trump’s appearance in Georgia on Saturday night at a rally for GOP candidates Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. While Trump repeatedly insisted that he won the election during the rally, he also at one point tacitly acknowledged Biden’s victory in describing the Senate races as deciding control of the Senate.

“At stake in this election is control of the Senate and that really means control of this country,” Trump told the crowd. “You will decide whether your children grow up in a socialist country or whether they grow up in a free country.”