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Even as the key battleground states have certified their results and Trumps legal challenges are crumbling, the president is refusing to let go of his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and fight to overturn the election results. Moreover, the official presidential transition is already in motion, and President-elect Joe Biden received his first presidential intelligence briefing on Monday.
But Republicans are increasingly seeing Trumps posture as not just rhetoric. They view it as a self-serving quest that could imperil the GOPs grip on the Senate by depressing turnout in two runoffs races that will decide which party controls the upper chamber. And they are publicly hoping he will refrain from pushing his false fraud claims when he visits the Peach State this week to campaign for Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
Making an allegation without having facts to back it up could be detrimental to his long-term legacy, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said flatly.
I would hope when the president is in Georgia Saturday he talks about the importance of turning out the vote, added Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of GOP leadership. And I think what he says on that trip will probably matter more than what hes said up until now.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-to-trump-georgia-fraud-claims-could-cost-us-the-senate/ar-BB1bvsHk?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP
subterranean
(3,427 posts)"Making an allegation without having facts to back it up could be detrimental to his long-term legacy, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said flatly.
That's a good one, Mike!
sheshe2
(83,319 posts)His legacy will be the deaths of 270K Americans and counting. What did he do? He golfed and whined about how mean everyone was to him.
LSFL
(1,109 posts)How's it feel to be on the other side of those lies, Scooter?
fearnobush
(3,960 posts)Of course he could make up some bullshit scheme saying we found the rigged algorithms its safe to vote now lol.
But we all know Donald Jackass Trump doesnt give two shits about the senate now that hes been defeated. In fact a dem senate and house could be beneficial to his 2024 fantasyland run.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)LisaM
(27,758 posts)I can't wait till he goes to Georgia. Pass the popcorn.
Wednesdays
(17,244 posts)jcgoldie
(11,582 posts)"Who cares?? I only give a fuck about Trump!"