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February 1 | Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite / AP / TT
Silence from the White House. Stock Photography.
The outgoing president of the United States, Donald Trump, has not yet declared himself defeated in the election. The message from his side is that legal processes challenging the election results must continue.
Trump has no public appearances scheduled for Monday. On Twitter, however, he was active and wrote with appreciation about the positive results of the Pfizer pharmaceutical company from the study of the coronavirus vaccine.
He has not spoken publicly since Thursday, when without proof he claimed Joe Biden won the presidential election for cheating. We’ll take it to the Supreme Court, Trump said then.
According to campaign manager Tim Murtaugh, Trump plans to hold mass demonstrations in support of his defiance of the election result. It is unclear when and where, according to Reuters.
Mass meeting planning
On Monday, Fox News Business Network asked campaign adviser Jason Miller when Trump should admit defeat and call Biden.
– That word is not in our vocabulary now. We will continue with all legal possibilities, all conversion methods, Miller replied.
It will be some time before the Länder officially confirm the election results. But tradition dictates that the losing party accepts the decision of the mainstream media and analytics companies. Last Saturday they named Biden as the winner.
Trump’s denial of how the election ended is a flagrant violation of etiquette in American politics. No other president has done that.
This weekend, when the election result came in, Trump chose to play golf twice and continued to tweet false claims that the election was rigged.
Strong support
Its irreconcilability with the democratic process threatens to add a constitutional crisis to a country already plagued by the crown plague and a declining economy, CNN claims.
The mixed signals come from Trump’s Republican Party. Many prominent Republicans sympathize with their leader and have not congratulated Biden either.
That circle includes Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina), who chairs the powerful legal committee. According to him, Trump does not have to recognize an electoral result that only the media has confirmed.
“If they did, there would never be a Republican president,” Graham told Fox on Sunday.
Bush congratulated
Other big supporters include House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (California), Senator Roy Blunt (Missouri) and Gov. Kristi Noem (South Dakota), The Hill reports. The support shows that Trump has by no means lost control of his party, at least not yet.
On the other hand, there is former President George W Bush, who congratulated Biden on Sunday. “A good person, who earned the opportunity to lead and unite our country.”
In his statement, Bush wrote that Trump has every right to try legal ways to review the results. But he doesn’t question it:
“The American people can be confident that the election was largely successful, that their independence was maintained, and that the outcome of the election is clear.”
Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) also congratulated Biden on the classic American tradition. So does Senator Lisa Murkowski (Alaska).
“He is who he is”
Signs within Trump’s inner circle indicate disagreement on how to handle the situation. CNN has reported that his wife Melania Trump and his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner recommended that he accept the loss. Yet sons Don Jr. Trump and Eric Trump want Dad to confront alleged voter fraud.
One of Trump’s friends, Newsmax editor Christopher Ruddy, told CNN that the acting president “is currently not interested in admitting defeat.”
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a recurring critic of Trump. It emphasizes that there is no evidence of widespread electoral fraud. His advice is that Trump will fall short when all legal avenues to change the election result are over.
– The nature of President Trump will not change during these obviously last days of his presidency. He is who he is. And he has a relatively relaxed relationship with the truth, Romney told CNN.
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