SALT LAKE CITY Former President Donald Trump will never admit that he lost a fair election, but every elected Republican ought to be telling voters that as a step toward bringing the country together, Sen. Mitt Romney said Tuesday.
In addition to social media perpetuating the big lie that Trump is somehow still president and President Joe Biden stole the election, GOP officials, too, are contributing to that notion, the Utah Republican said. You have many of the Trump supporters in elected office, senators, congresspeople, governors, continuing to say the same thing, that the election was stolen, Romney said.
But, he said, what they should tell people is that the Trump campaign had a chance to take their message to the courts, the courts laughed them out of court. I ve seen no evidence that suggests that there was widespread voter fraud.
Former President Donald Trump will never admit that he lost a fair election but every elected Republican ought to be telling voters that he did as a step toward bringing the country together, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Tuesday.
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.By the time you read this, President Donald Trump and the first lady will have departed the White House for Palm Beach, Fla.
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Happy Wednesday, Illinois. It s a lot of hurry up and wait in politics these days! We ve got news about one Senate race in Georgia (Raphael Warnock has ousted Sen. Kelly Loeffler) and we re still waiting on Jon Ossoff s effort to boot GOP Sen. David Perdue. And certification of Joe Biden s win starts today but could be drawn out into tomorrow. So pour some coffee and let s focus on Illinois.
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