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On Monday, Republican Senator Susan Collins joined those who recognize Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. Collins has represented his Maine state in the Senate since 1997 and also won this year’s election with 50.6 percent to Democrat Sara Gideon, who received 42.7 percent.
“He loves this the country and I wish him every success, ”Collins wrote in the statement congratulating Biden on the victory.
Collins is the third Republican senator to congratulate Biden, previously Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski have done the same. But several other Republican politicians have also recognized Biden as the new president, including former President George W. Bush, former Ohio Governor John Kasich, Vermont Governor Phil Scott, and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who chose to write ” Ronald Reagan “on his ballot instead of electing Biden or Trump, Forbes writes.
Monday called Also 30 former Republican Congressmen Donald Trump to admit defeat:
“We believe that the statements made by President Trump about the alleged electoral fraud are intended to undermine the legitimacy of the elections and that is unacceptable,” they wrote according to the Huffington Post.
One heavyweight Republican who clearly sided with Donald Trump is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who in a Senate speech Monday said the president has every right to question the election:
“President Trump is in his full right to investigate allegations of wrongdoing and weigh legal options, McConnell told Reuters.
Others have chosen to distance themselves from Trump, and this is perhaps most evident on the president’s former favorite channel, Fox News, which, along with Twitter, has been, in many ways, Trump’s rostrum for exposing his policies.
Since election night, Fox News has had several features critical of the president, and the president’s voters have raised critical voices against the channel and started calling it “fake news,” writes The Guardian.
It became very clear On Monday, when White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, in a White House broadcast, began talking about legal and illegal votes and Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto decided to discontinue the broadcast. This in reference to the fact that McEnany had no evidence that illegal votes were cast.
– I cannot conscientiously continue to show this, said Neil Cavuto, one of Fox’s news anchors.
– It is, to say the least, a serious accusation that the other party would have rigged the election and cheated.
And that’s from the president Repeated accusations that the elections had not gone well which in several places has put Republicans in front of difficult elections. Support or not your president.
While the Reuters news agency reported that Joe Biden has now expanded his leadership in Georgia by another 1,000 votes and is leading President Trump by 11,596 votes, the two Republican senators from Georgia asked their party colleague in charge of the state vote to give up. Write the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The two, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, claim the elections did not go well, but have not produced any evidence, the newspaper writes.
Valencia Brad Raffensperger has responded that the election went well and instead urges the two senators to focus on their work in the Senate.
Another person in charge of the vote, Gabriel Sterling, also confirms to the newspaper that there is nothing to indicate cheating or irregularities.
Georgia’s Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan has also seen no signs of vote rigging:
“There is no evidence that there has been any form of voter fraud in Georgia,” Governor Duncan told CNN.
Georgia is one of the states where current President Donald Trump has denounced electoral fraud and where Trump has demanded a recount of all votes. While more and more information shows his inferiority in the state is on the rise, Donald Trump declared Monday night that he will win big in Georgia.
“Georgia will be a huge victory for the President, as it was on Election Night!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
If there is a difference of less than half a percent between the candidates, the person below can request a recalculation.
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s vote-by-mail vote on Monday night Swedish time. According to the Trump campaign, the state postal ballot lacks all of the transparency and verifiability opportunities that apply to voting in person. Writes the Reuters news agency.
