“I think that race is over. I think the counting’s been done. I’m not sure there’s anything that would change that,” Coleman told C-SPAN in an interview set to air on Sunday. Coleman himself fought until the bitter end of his 2008 Senate race against Democrat Al Franken, which dragged on for seven months because of a recount and legal challenges…

“I made a decision in my race with Franken at a certain point in time to say, ‘Let’s not go any further,’” said Coleman. “I think at a certain point in time, you have to have some finality to these things. It should be time to move on. There’s not much that you can gain by extending the process.”