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By Paul Kane and Scott Clement
Dec. 5, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EST
Just 25 congressional Republicans acknowledge Joe Bidens win over President Trump a month after the former vice presidents clear victory of more than 7 million votes nationally and a convincing electoral-vote margin that exactly matched Trumps 2016 tally.
Two Republicans consider Trump the winner despite all evidence showing otherwise. And another 222 GOP members of the House and Senate nearly 90 percent of all Republicans serving in Congress will simply not say who won the election.
Those are the findings of a Washington Post survey of all 249 Republicans in the House and Senate that began the morning after Trump posted a 46-minute video Wednesday evening in which he wrongly claimed he had defeated Biden and leveled wild and unsubstantiated allegations of corrupt forces who stole the outcome from the sitting president.
A chart shows how Republicans answered three questions in a survey about President-elect Joe Biden's election victory and President Trump's false claims of victory.
A team of 25 Post reporters contacted aides for every Republican by email and phone asking three basic questions who won the presidential contest, do you support or oppose Trumps continuing efforts to claim victory and if Biden wins a majority in the electoral college, will you accept him as the legitimately elected president and also researched public statements made by the GOP lawmakers in recent weeks to determine their stance on Bidens win.
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beachbumbob
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(18,664 posts)raccoon
(31,126 posts)royable
(1,266 posts)an incarceration.
Shermann
(7,440 posts)There's a double entendre there regarding their competence on the job as well as their penchant for spreading coronavirus.
dalton99a
(81,592 posts)maxrandb
(15,359 posts)If you can't acknowledge a critical, basic tenant of our Constitution and democracy, then you surely can't affirm an oath to "Defend" that Constitution.
They shouldn't be seated in the House!