Following last night’s dreary acceptance speech from Joe Biden, who celebrated the Electoral College officially certifying his victory in the Nov. 3 election by warning yet again about the “long dark winter” ahead, GOP Sen Majority Leader Mitch McConnell – who cagily encouraged Trump and his allies to raise questions and kick the tires, without embracing more combative rhetoric about a stolen election – has officially conceded that Biden is now “President-Elect”.

Watch Mitch McConnell finally acknowledge Biden’s win: pic.twitter.com/zBHNOxATRH

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Following similar comments from Vladimir Putin earlier on Tuesday, McConnell said: “Our country has officially a president-elect and a vice-president elect…I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden.”

It looks like McConnell, often credited as the architect of the GOP’s combative approach toward the Obama Administration, is now all about inter-party “unity”  now that his old buddy Joe Biden is in office.