McConnell says 'you should not be shocked if both sides' have lawyers
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that he thinks President Trump "ran a heck of a race."
"Everybody was writing him off," McConnell said. "He went out and really worked himself to death for the last two months with multiple rallies every day and turned it into a cliffhanger against everybody's expectation."
Asked about the president falsely declaring victory, McConnell said, "It's not unusual for people to claim they've won the election, I can think of that happening on numerous occasions, but claiming you've won the election is different from finishing the counting."
"What we're going to see here in the next few days both in the Senate races and in the presidential race is each state will get to a final outcome and you should not be shocked if both sides are going to have lawyers there, both in these close Senate races and in the presidential contest," he said.
McConnell also changed his timeline on COVID-19 relief, saying he believes the Senate needs to do a relief package "before the end of the year." That's a departure from comments he made just before Election Day that relief ought to be taken up "right at the beginning" of next year.
-ABC News' Allie Pecorin
