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Monday, December 7th, 2020

Just 27 congressional Republicans acknowledge Biden’s win, Washington Post survey finds

Author:     Paul Kane and Scott Clement
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     Dec. 5, 2020 at 2:15 p.m. EST
 Link: Just 27 congressional Republicans acknowledge Biden’s win, Washington Post survey finds
Stephan:   The things that stand out for me about the Congressional Republicans, as Trump's Marx brothers coup continues, are their lack of ethics or morality, and their cowardice.  These are weak small people whose only interest is protecting their own ass. They don't give a damn about you or the country's wellbeing. Here is the hard data proving this.

Just 27 congressional Republicans acknowledge Joe Biden’s win over President Trump a month after the former vice president’s clear victory of more than 7 million votes nationally and a convincing electoral-vote margin that exactly matched Trump’s 2016 tally.

Two Republicans consider Trump the winner despite all evidence showing otherwise. And another 220 GOP members of the House and Senate — about 88 percent of all Republicans serving in Congress — will simply not say who won the election.

Those are the findings of a Washington Post survey of all 249 Republicans in the House and Senate that began the morning after Trump posted a 46-minute video Wednesday evening in which he wrongly claimed he had defeated Biden and leveled wild and unsubstantiated allegations of “corrupt forces” who stole the outcome from the sitting president.

A team of 25 Post reporters contacted aides for every Republican by email and phone asking three basic questions — who won the presidential contest, do you support or oppose Trump’s continuing efforts to claim victory and if Biden wins a majority in the electoral college, will you accept him […]

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