In locally written content, Strib headlines:
Rep. Tom Emmer will attend Joe Biden's presidential inauguration — but still won't call him president-elect
Emmer, Klobuchar sparred over election outcome on Thursday.
Mr. Emmer, (NOT referred to here as Rep. Emmer) surely is a team player, the Strib report showing it:
Making his first public comments since both developments, Emmer acknowledged the Electoral College's recognition of Biden as the winner and said President Donald Trump's options for challenging that outcome were "diminishing."
But in a panel discussion with Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Emmer rebuffed attempts by moderator and CBS correspondent Major Garrett to refer to Biden as president-elect. Emmer instead said that Jan. 6, the date Congress will officially count the Electoral College's votes, marks the end of the line.
"There is a process in place," Emmer said. "For me, you've got to allow the process to go through."
Emmer's stance is a dramatic change from how he responded to Trump's 2016 victory, when he publicly congratulated and referred to Trump as president-elect the day after the election.
During Mr. Emmer's hockey career he must have been a really sore loser. Likely Mr. Emmer accused winning opponent hockey teams of somehow cheating whenever his team lost, however relatively incompetent his team's leadership was in running the team. Probably Mr. Emmer was even casting blame on the Zamboni driver for bad ice causing his stumbling into the boards with a resultant head injury. One can picture Mr Emmer especially backing any claim by his team's coach of misconduct by opponent teams. Likely disputing fan turnout counts too.