Pence, other GOP officials expected to skip Trump send-off

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4. There is no reason Trump couldn't have had his little pitty party send off today

He didn't have to have it on Wednesday. So obvious he wanted to disrupt Biden's day. I'm sure he was imagining hundreds of thousands of MAGAts, standing room only, super spreader extravaganza. Compared to Biden's purposely low key and low audience event, he could crow about is larger size. Probably slip in a line how he MUST have won the election based on crowd size.

I think it will be a flop. And any politician that attends that instead of the inauguration, the cameras will pick them out, and they will suffer for it. Of course they are counting on Trump continuing his influence, and being the de facto leader of the party. In other words, they would be counting on the destruction of the country.

Its a aspect of your system there, that there is no opposition leader between elections. Most democracies have a parliament and a leader of the opposition who speaks for the party. Mitch is the closest to that, but I don't think most Republicans would think of Mitch as their leader. So what that means is there is a hole there to fill and Trump is the orange elephant in the room. In your country, there is no opposition leader, recognized also as their next candidate running for them in 4 years, to reject Trumpism, and work to galvanize the rest of the GOP around to his or her side. I always thought that an odd tangent of your system, that the opposition is basically flailing around rudderless for at least 3.5 years.