President-elect Biden currently leads President Trump by over 5 million popular votes and over 73 electoral votes. There is no way that President Trump can win reelection. However, despite Biden winning the election, President Trump has refused to concede, and the vast majority of elected Republicans have yet to acknowledge Biden’s win.
Obviously, we should never expert President Trump to concede to President-elect Biden. Prior to Election Day, President Trump repeatedly made clear that he did not believe there was any way he could lose a free and fair election.
In July, during an interview on Fox News Sunday, President Trump was asked if he would accept the results of the election. President Trump said, "No. I have to see. Look you -- I have to see. No, I'm not going to just say 'yes.' I'm not going to say 'no.' And I didn't last time, either.”
On September 13, during a campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, President Trump told his supporters without any evidence, "The Democrats are trying to rig this election because that's the only way they're going to win.”
On September 23, when President Trump was specifically asked if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power, he said, “We want to get rid of the ballots, and we’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There’ll be a continuation.”
Despite President Trump repeatedly indicating he would not accept the results of the election or leave office if he loses, it is just frankly unfathomable that most of the Republicans in Congress would also be such sore losers and refuse to accept the election results.
In the 116th Congress, there are 53 Republican Senators and 199 Republican Congress members. Of those 53 Republican Senators, all but seven, have refused to acknowledge that Biden is president-elect of the United States. In the House, only six Republican Congress members have publicly acknowledged President-elect Biden.
For 244 years, there has been a peaceful transition of power in America from one administration to the next. Why has President Trump been able to so terrorize members of his party that they are seemingly unable to accept the results of the election?
On November 10, an entire week after Election Day, Senator Coons (D-DE) said that several of his Republican colleagues had ask him to congratulate Biden on becoming President-elect.
"They call me to say, you know, 'Congratulations, please convey my well wishes to the President-elect, but I can't say that publicly yet,' " Senator Coons (D-DE) told CNN without naming any specific senators.
One must ask, what is wrong with the Republican caucus? Why do they so fear a man who has lost the presidency by a record number of votes? Why do they so fear a man who is at least $1 billion in debt? Why do they so fear a man who has overseen the death of nearly 250,000 Americans due to a pandemic that he has refused to try to control?
Republican representatives need to grow up and come to terms with reality. President Trump does not control you. America needs a strong and intellectually honest Republican Party to help America address the immediate and future challenges we face. President Trump is not part of that future and must be abandoned by the GOP.
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