In Key States, Republicans Were Critical in Resisting Trump's Election Narrative

[Zorro]

They refuted conspiracy theories, certified results, dismissed lawsuits and repudiated a president of their own party.

The telephone call would have been laugh-out-loud ridiculous if it had not been so serious. When Tina Barton picked up, she found someone from President Trump’s campaign asking her to sign a letter raising doubts about the results of the election.

The election that Ms. Barton as the Republican clerk of the small Michigan city of Rochester Hills had helped oversee. The election that she knew to be fair and accurate because she had helped make it so. The election that she had publicly defended amid threats that made her upgrade her home security system.

“Do you know who you’re talking to right now?” she asked the campaign official.

Evidently not.

If the president hoped Republicans across the country would fall in line behind his false and farcical claims that the election was somehow rigged on a mammoth scale by a nefarious multinational conspiracy, he was in for a surprise. Republicans in Washington may have indulged Mr. Trump’s fantastical assertions, but at the state and local level, Republicans played a critical role in resisting the mounting pressure from their own party to overturn the vote after Mr. Trump fell behind on Nov. 3.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/politics/trump-republicans-election-results.html

[The Genealogist]

1. Imagine, plenty of people not wanting to fall on their own swords to sate the whims of a manbaby.

I guess Dotard has learned that not every Republican is a die-hard member of his warped cult.

[joshcryer]

2. The GOP is having infighting that the Dems have always had.

It's a nice sight to behold. That Trump continues this fraud conspiracy is good for us in the long run because they will fight within their ranks about the necessity to keep being these incredibly loyal down ticket voters, while some will be disillusioned in the process.

I do not agree with people being voter suppressed on either side, but this will likely work out in our favor. And it's all due to their own actions. I would still encourage Dems and the left to champion the integrity of our elections, but ironically I think that will only bolster their own denial and voter suppression tactics.

[andym]

3. Cheating has been as American as Apple Pie for a long time

Trump has made an art of it-- that's what he clearly means by MAGA. However, there are still some Americans with enough integrity not to cheat and put civic duty above their political party. Perhaps there is still hope.

[Biophilic]

4. I really admire these people and they give me hope

The local and state Republicans who refused to undermine our democracy. They cared enough to stand up for all of us. Why do the "little" people still believe in things like rule of law and will of the people? Are the rewards so much bigger on the national level that people on that level can't refuse? I just don't believe that.

On the other hand, how can these defenders of democracy support people like Trump and McConnell? It's a puzzle that leaves me befuddled.

And I still admire anyone, especially the 'locals', who cared enough to stand fast to defend everyone's vote and voice. Those are the people I want to reach across the aisle to.

[Cha]

5. Well TG for these repubs who have

refused to bow to the Fraudulent POS