Reality comes to the Republicans

reThe vote of the electorate of the states confirmed it on Monday: Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. 306 voters voted for him and 232 for Donald Trump. In the evening, Biden called for the results to be recognized, for the nation to be politically “cured,” and for joint efforts to be made to combat the coronavirus pandemic, which now averages every minute. kills a person in the United States.

However, many Republicans were unimpressed by the election results or Biden’s appeals. In several states where the Democrats won, there were legally invalid “counter votes” by the Republican electorate. The usual polite compliments from the other side were mostly lacking. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Opposition Leader Kevin McCarthy have yet to verbally acknowledge Biden’s victory. Many Republican politicians continued to ignore such requests. For many, the fear of their own re-election is probably too great, and the loyalty to Donald Trump. Instead, there were vague statements that those protesting in many cities against the election result in many cities can feel confirmed: “We will see this,” said Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee when asked about her reaction to the vote.

Some Republicans are distancing themselves

But there were also early Republican moves to withdraw from Trump – some were shy and others more pronounced. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, at least seemed to acknowledge that Biden would be the next president. “It’s still a very, very narrow road for the president,” said the South Carolina Republican, who until now had supported Trump and his electoral fraud fantasies. After the Supreme Court decision, he doesn’t see how Trump can still achieve his goal of contesting the election, Graham said. Last week, the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by the state of Texas that sought to invalidate millions of ballots in other states. Graham voiced his criticism of Trump’s campaign against the election result only with extreme caution. “It’s his business,” he said of the loser. The courts probably concluded that the election was not “stolen,” the senator said. Graham also revealed, according to CNN, that he himself recently had a “very nice” ten-minute conversation with Biden.

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt, who chairs the congressional swearing-in committee, announced that the panel will meet soon and discuss the details of the ceremony for Biden on January 20. Recently, Blunt, along with other Republicans, refused to formally acknowledge the need to prepare for the event. Now the senator said they had a president-elect because the constitutional process had been carried out. When asked if he would recognize Biden as president-elect, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said, “I don’t have to, the Constitution does. I follow the Constitution.” Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan described the refusal of many party colleagues to accept the result as shameful.

Michigan Rep. Paul Mitchell went the furthest. He resigned from the Republican Party on Monday in protest of Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the election result. The president and his supporters could do long-term damage to democracy, he wrote in his resignation letter. Mitchell, who says he voted for Trump’s political plans 95 percent of the time, wants to retire by the end of the year.