GOP Fears Conceding Trump Loss Would Cost Senate

[applegrove]

GOP Fears Conceding Trump Loss Would Cost Senate

November 9, 2020 at 5:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 192 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/09/gop-fears-conceding-trump-loss-would-cost-senate/

"SNIP.....

“Top Republicans in Washington are reluctant to call Joe Biden the president-elect publicly, fearing a rebellion by grassroots conservatives loyal to President Trump that would sink the party’s Senate majority,” the Washington Examiner reports.

“Republican insiders privately concede Biden ousted Trump and dismiss suggestions voter fraud, ballot errors, or other issues would be uncovered sufficient to alter the election. But with the president claiming otherwise and two Georgia runoff elections set for January that will decide the Senate majority, plus midterm elections in 2022, most congressional Republicans are backing Trump. The move is purely transactional.”

.....SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. The transaction will never end then. Ivanka will take over owning the GOP base

if Donald passes away.

[underpants]

9. I'm don't see them falling in line for Ivanka

I see Sen Tom Cotton ready to come in and make a move for 2024.

[Laelth]

27. +1 Cotton is next in line. n/t

-Laelth

[lapfog_1]

14. If Ted Cruz wasn't hated by the rest of the re0ublicans

It would be him, but now I expect it to be little Marco "need a drink of wa-wa" rubio... hence his rather disgusting play this last week to appeal to the trumpanzees. Linseed oily graham too.

[applegrove]

19. Yes Marco is the crown prince. Cotton looks like a Q tip. Linseed

needs someone to form a pair bond with so he could only run as VP.

[spanone]

2. Let's hope so.

I got an email from Speaker Pelosi that said McConnell just dumped 50 MILLION DOLLARS into that election.

[magicarpet]

17. Is that Russian oligarch money.... ?

Moscow Mitch's $50 million big ones.

[spanone]

20. She didn't specify.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. Moscow's Bitch McConnell is building a Russian laundromat (alias aluminum plant) in KY.

[underpants]

3. That makes sense.

But they can’t hold off until Jan. 5th can they?

[elleng]

4. They can't live with the truth, and

we can't live with THEM.

[unblock]

5. "Our best electoral strategy is to promote mass insanity!"

[Maeve]

6. This is the REAL meaning of "mob rule"

They are a minority, but they have the power of causing fear

[FloridaBlues]

7. This tactic will get very old very quickly

Don't think this is a good strategy for them.

[Phoenix61]

8. The people in Georgia where the runoff elections

will happen stated clearly they are tired of Twitler’s constant stream of bs. I’m not sure how they think supporting it will help them win a senate majority. It seems much more likely to cost them dearly.

[C_U_L8R]

10. This is going to backfire on them so badly.

It's as hilarious as it is heinous.

[mr_lebowski]

21. If I had a nickel for every time ...

Just sayin

[LizBeth]

11. We need to have the real conversation of irregularities, sitting in the post office how many ballot

weren't delivered. And I do not imagine they want to get too much into the machine with no paper trail.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. They created a monster and now they can't control it.

It sounds like the plot line for an old horror movie.

[dweller]

13. Well we have no choice

but to stomp them into the dirt

✌🏻

[Mike Nelson]

15. I was thinking...

... the opposite. I thought they might want to concede quickly and run the GA Republicans as a Senate "check" on Biden/Harris. But, what do I know? I'm no expert...

[mzmolly]

16. They took an oath to the constitution,

period.

[enough]

22. For them, and oath is just another one of those quaint outmoded norms

that can be broken the minute it suits them. It has no meaning and no consequences.

[mzmolly]

24. Apparently so. They are willing to risk our Democracy

to hold onto the Senate for two years? ... Insanity. They should ultimately face criminal charges.

[Blue Owl]

18. It is what it is

[Mr. Ected]

23. Then when they ask us to extend an olive branch to the losers, like they've done, incessantly,

We just tell them that that wasn't part of the "transaction".

[DFW]

25. Are they going to continue to call the sky green because they don't like Bill Clinton's tie?

Altering reality for political expediency usually has a very short shelf life.

[former9thward]

26. The story makes zero sense.

The electoral college will meet Dec. 14 so all legal challenges need to be resolved by then. SCOTUS knows that calendar better than anyone. So the formal vote will put Biden as the constitutional President-elect concession or no concession. The Senate runoffs will be Jan 5 --- almost a month later. So all the legal stuff will be resolved almost a month before the elections.

I believe the opposite of the article. The fact that Biden will be President is going to motivate R voters and Indies who voted for Biden to get rid of Trump to go to the polls to support the R candidates as a check on Biden

[Bayard]

28. For the Good of the Country

In their vocabulary about as much as trump's.

I heard someone, maybe Neal Katyal? say that we can still invoke the 25th amendment.