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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 12:07 AM Nov 2020

Republicans start to relent: 'It looks like it will be President Biden'

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by JudyM (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump’s legal campaign to reverse his election loss is crumbling all around him and there’s no mathematical possibility that he can reverse margins of 10,000 or more votes in the five states he won in 2016 but lost to Biden. Meanwhile, the Biden transition is stuck in molasses, and Trump is barely addressing the coronavirus spikes across the country, let alone cooperating with the incoming administration on vaccine distribution efforts.

Most Republicans have been reluctant to contradict Trump’s claim that he can still hold the White House, but there’s been a steady trickle of GOP lawmakers defecting from Trump’s false contention that he was robbed by fraudsters. After Trump tweeted Monday, “I won the election,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) told reporters, “I wouldn’t have advised he put it that way.”

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Trump can and should continue his legal challenges but has “every confidence on Jan. 20 we’re going to inaugurate a president. And it will probably be Joe Biden.”

“It grows increasingly unlikely that a remedy would involve overturning the election,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who said he nonetheless supports Trump’s goals of exposing even small cases of malfeasance on ballots. “Vice President Biden ought to be getting briefings and the transition ought to be in the works so that there’s an infrastructure for that. And if he ends up winning, as it seems likely he will, that he won’t have to get caught up on one day in January.”



Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/republicans-transition-concede-436915
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Republicans start to relent: 'It looks like it will be President Biden' (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2020 OP
Yes, it's started. elleng Nov 2020 #1
They are betraying Trump!! He needs to do something!! Bleacher Creature Nov 2020 #2
It's their fault he didn't win the state. Phoenix61 Nov 2020 #6
Reality Chris27777 Nov 2020 #3
I remember the Before Times when grudgingly admitting to reality wasn't a profile in courage. Nexus2 Nov 2020 #4
It's beginning to look a lot like Biden Blue Owl Nov 2020 #5
That is beautiful! Nt raccoon Nov 2020 #7
Locking JudyM Nov 2020 #8

elleng

(130,156 posts)
1. Yes, it's started.
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 12:09 AM
Nov 2020

Now we follow the drip drip drip minute by minute.

Bleacher Creature

(11,237 posts)
2. They are betraying Trump!! He needs to do something!!
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 12:13 AM
Nov 2020

And if I may offer a suggestion, I'd say that he should withdraw all of his support for Perdue and Loeffler.

That would sure show them!!

Phoenix61

(16,954 posts)
6. It's their fault he didn't win the state.
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 12:55 AM
Nov 2020

I have no idea if that’s true or not but I’m sure Twitler will think it is. He has to blame some one.

 

Chris27777

(14 posts)
3. Reality
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 12:25 AM
Nov 2020

No. Not the TV kind. The real thing. Starts to slowly seep in, in time to prevent any gaps on national security I hope.

Nexus2

(1,261 posts)
4. I remember the Before Times when grudgingly admitting to reality wasn't a profile in courage.
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 12:31 AM
Nov 2020

2 2

Blue Owl

(49,934 posts)
5. It's beginning to look a lot like Biden
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 12:38 AM
Nov 2020

It's beginning to look a lot like Biden,
Everywhere you go,
Take a look at the M.S.M, they're verifying again,
With electoral and popular votes that grow...

It's beginning to look a lot like Biden
Joe is to the fore,
But the prettiest sight to see is the Donald that will be
Booted out the door!

raccoon

(31,091 posts)
7. That is beautiful! Nt
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 07:48 AM
Nov 2020

JudyM

(29,122 posts)
8. Locking
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 10:08 AM
Nov 2020

Analysis belongs in General Discussion, not LBN.

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