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Business leaders across the country are keen to leave 2020—and last year’s contentious election—in the rearview.
On Monday, a group of nearly 200 executives from the fashion, retail, finance, airline, pharmaceutical, real estate, sports and media industries signed onto a letter calling for Congress to certify the electoral results that will allow President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to be sworn into office later this month. The letter was organized by the Partnership for New York City, a lobbying and advocacy group for the city’s business community, and comes as a widely reported recording emerged over the weekend of President Trump wading into legally dubious territory by asking Georgia electoral officials to “find” enough votes to sway the state, which Biden won, in his favor.
“This presidential election has been decided and it is time for the country to move forward,”...