WASHINGTON, D.C. — While well wishes from heads of state around the world have poured in for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Congressional Republicans remain largely silent on the presidential election results with some saying they'd feel more comfortable speaking after President Donald Trump's legal challenges are resolved.

"I think we need to respect the process. The states have until December 14 to verify the results and the state legislatures do that. I think we should give the President’s camp time to investigate, what are anecdotal right now, reports of fraud," said Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie (R-District 4).

"If the disparities between Biden and Trump is so great in those swing states, it should be easy to verify this election. What we don’t want is the situation we had for the last four years where a large percentage of the population thought that Russians elected Trump," Massie added.

The Northern Kentucky congressman did not forcefully reject the results. But on Twitter, Kentucky's junior Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican, suggested people co-opted identities of the dead to vote.

According to FactCheck.org, election experts say that while fradulent votes are occassionally cast by "dead people," "it is exceedingly rare, and would not likely affect the outcome even in a relatively close race, such as the one in Pennsylvania."

"I think the comments of Senator Paul and others who try to maintain this fiction that there are massive fraud in elections is irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic, and it’s damaging to society. If they have evidence of it, put it forward," said Rep. John Yarmuth, (D- District 3).

While Republicans are still working through how they want to respond to Biden's projected victory, Democrats have issues of their own with the more moderate wing of the party blaming progressives for poor performance in House and Senate races. Yarmuth, a member of the Progressive Caucus, says both the moderate and progressive factions of the party are making reasonable arguments.

"I have been critical of our campaign arm’s digital campaign strategy for ten years. We are nowhere near where we should be and that’s where our voters live. We need to forget about television advertising and worry about where our voters exist and that’s on social media and in the digital world. I think she’s absolutely right about that," he said of New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D) position.

"Republicans have always been better about framing issues than Democrats have been and to talk about, for instance, defunding the police, is a bad way to frame the issue of police misconduct and racial bias. That’s not the way you frame the argument," he said in agreement with Virginia Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D), who last week characterized the House races as a failure for Democrats on a Democratic Caucus call.

Yarmuth said he breathed a sigh of relief on Saturday when the Associated Press called the race for Biden, but that he won't feel completely at peace until Biden is sworn into office next year. He says addressing the coronavirus pandemic and climate change should be the top priorities of the new administration while Massie has his eye on infrastructure policy.

"I hope that if Joe Biden is declared the winner, he focuses on transportation, infrastructure, things like that where we can bridge the divide," Massie said.