Democrat Sen. Chris Coons says Republicans are privately congratulating Joe Biden, but that they can't admit it publicly yet

Senator says he thinks more Republicans will publicly accept the results

Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware said that Republican lawmakers were privately telling him that they accept the results of the election but cannot admit it publicly.

Coons made the comments Tuesday to CNN's Alisyn Camerota after she questioned him about Republican lawmakers who were publicly denying the results of the election announced by the mainstream media.

"What are they telling you behind the scenes?" Camerota asked.

"Um, bluntly," Coons laughed, "that they accept that. I mean, they call me to say, you know, 'Congratulations, please convey my well wishes to the president-elect, but I can't say that publicly yet.'"

"Wow," responded CNN host John Berman.

"These are conversations best kept private," Coons added.

"OK, and when will they be able to say that publicly?" Camerota asked.

"Uh, my, my job here I think, is to continue to urge them privately to do the right thing," Coons responded. "And to help the president accept reality and to help their caucus stand up publicly, because frankly the transition is going to be chaotic at best if it doesn't get moving very soon. It should be under way already."

Coons criticized Republican leaders for dragging on the process and claimed that there were no credible allegations of voter fraud that would result in a change of the presidential election results. He said that only four Republicans in the Senate had accepted the results so far and that he hoped more this week would do so publicly in order to prevent any further damage to the transition effort.

President Donald Trump has claimed that he won the election and that Democrats have used voter fraud to steal the election from him. He has begun a campaign of lawsuits in order to challenge the voting counts in several battleground states.

"I am confident, in the end, 71 days from now, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in at the Capitol I can see from where I'm standing, as the next president and the vice president of the United States. Our challenge as a nation is just how chaotic, and unpredictable and destructive this period will be," Coons concluded.

Here's the video of Coons' comments to Camerota:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/chris-coons-republicans-secret-biden

2,000 African Boat Migrants Land on the Canary Islands Over the Weekend

A surge of illegal boat migrants from Africa landed on the Spanish Canary Islands over the weekend, in numbers not seen since 2006.

Between Saturday and Sunday, approximately 2,000 migrants on 45 boats landed on the Spanish archipelago, which is off the coast of the African nation Western Sahara.

The vice president of the local Canary Islands government, Román Rodríguez, criticised the Spanish government for failing to help assist the Spanish territory during the growing migrant crisis.

Rodríguez said that Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has shown “little commitment” to helping stem the tide of migrants, according to the local newspaper La Provincia.

The massive influx of migrants over the weekend forced the local government to put up the illegal aliens in hotels, as the migrant camps on the island were quickly overwhelmed.

Spanish Minister of Migration, José Luis Escrivá said: “In the Canary Islands we do not have a structural reception capacity as we would like to have.”

The Spanish government has revealed that since the start of the year, some 11,000 migrants have landed on the Canary Islands, compared to 2,557 during the same period last year. The influx of illegal aliens from Africa is the highest recorded since 2006 when some 39,000 landed on the islands.

Spanish Canary Islands See ‘Unsustainable’ 700 Per Cent Rise in Migrants https://t.co/wFSHvA7WME

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 8, 2020

The Canary Islands, which lie just 100 kilometres off the coast of North Africa, have seen a massive uptick in the number of illegal boat migrants following border control pacts between the European Union and Turkey, Morocco, and Libya.

A spokeswoman for the Canary immigration emergency services said that at least one migrant died trying to reach El Hierro island.

The European Union’s EU internal affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson said on Friday that the bloc must increase the number of deportations of illegal migrants who do not qualify for asylum.

Amidst the growing migrant crisis in the Canary Islands, as well as in Greece and Italy, the EU has committed to updating the bloc’s policy towards illegal immigration and to abolish the Dublin agreement, which mandates that migrants claim asylum in the first EU member state they arrive in.

The new immigration agreement is said to permit countries to pay for the costs of repatriating migrants who do not qualify for asylum, rather than being forced to keep them.

Meanwhile, some 100 illegal boat migrants have landed in England since Thursday of last week, with 56 landing on Thursday, another 40 on Friday, and 8 illegals on Saturday.

The number of illegal migrants recorded to have reached the UK is quickly approaching 8,000 since the start of the year, up from 1,890 for the entirety of 2019.

Over 7,500 Illegal Boat Migrants Arrived in Britain This Year https://t.co/Z5rhMI9DCj

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 21, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/10/nearly-2000-african-boat-migrants-land-on-the-spanish-canary-islands-over-the-weekend/