GOP splits over Trump's false election claims, unfounded fraud allegations

[spanone]

President Trump questioned the presidential election results Thursday night in a speech so riddled with false and unfounded claims that many major news networks, including MSNBC, CBS and ABC, cut away to fact-check the Republican incumbent in real time.

Trump’s broadsides have exposed tensions within his party, splitting GOP officials who spoke publicly on Thursday night into warring camps: those who defended the president and those who defended the U.S. election process. Many others, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have stayed silent.

Trump’s loyalists, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), echoed Trump’s evidence-free claims of widespread fraud in Pennsylvania and other swing states that have been trending toward former vice president Joe Biden as more votes are counted.

“President Trump won this election,” McCarthy falsely claimed to Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday night. He followed up his on-air comments with a tweet proclaiming: “Republicans will not be silenced. We demand transparency. We demand accuracy. And we demand that the legal votes be protected.”

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[Leghorn21]

1. Good good good

GOOD

fuck the lot of ya

[ananda]

2. MSNBC said that Biden was reaching out to some Republicans..

to ask them to speak publicly and declare the election legitimate.

[spanone]

3. Good for him. This republican cancer must be cut out. They will lie for trump till the end of time

[Fahrenthold451]

4. So what did the Lincoln Group say they would do?

Because all the other Republicans can f*ck off.

[ananda]

5. No idea.

Just that Biden was reaching across the aisle to
ask some Republicans to legitimize the election.