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tanyev

(42,620 posts)
6. I have to wonder if McConnell was the senior Republican official who said this in Nov. 2020:
Wed Jan 10, 2024, 09:43 AM
Jan 2024
Days after Democratic nominee Joe Biden was projected by all major media outlets as the winner of the presidential election, Trump has yet to concede the race, and his campaign is pursuing legal efforts to challenge the results in numerous battleground states. Though experts say there's essentially no chance of these legal options affecting the outcome of the election, one Republican official told The Washington Post they're fine with entertaining Trump while being confident his efforts won't succeed.

"What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?" a senior Republican official told the Post. "No one seriously thinks the results will change. He went golfing this weekend. It's not like he's plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on Jan. 20. He's tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he'll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he'll leave."

https://news.yahoo.com/republican-official-asks-downside-humoring-135240153.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH00vXXsA7ajLSmnMpn1zkAWsClO-P3V14HiH1GzbF9O5EZYOIiowYRCsmPLQkJjPOmPRY_HF0fL3PffH45BJzEySWWkUNBm6hDeLYmbPFH655w3342A5P3IrNBAbLIj5Xo7Tmo1Xh6MMcoM5d6RXlmq5lNlmOEkwC0IJfUszDEl


Or maybe Lindsey Graham.

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