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Reporter:
Mr. Vice President, do you think you won the election?
Mike Pence is silent.
The most powerful Republican in the Senate, majority leader Mitch McConnell, also seems embarrassed.
When asked about Trump's allegations of electoral fraud, he evades:
Reporter "He keeps doing it. Why are you giving in to that?"
Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, “What I'm going to do is focus on the work that we have before us here in the Senate. We should let go of the excitement now and not pretend this is something out of the ordinary. We will get through this phase and on January 20th there will be an inauguration of the victor, as it has always been since 1793. "
Mitch McConnell does not name the winner.
Foreign Secretary Pompeo went further by confusing reporters with this statement at a press conference:
Mike Pompeo; US Secretary of State
"There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration."
Apparently it wasn't a joke.
Reporter to a GOP Senator
"Mr. Senator, have you already congratulated Vice President Biden?" "No."
With a few exceptions, the party still supports its president.
For reasons:
Douglas Lawrence, author of "Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown 2020"
"Trump just has such a strong, quasi-stranglehold on the Republican base, and anyone who opposes him would notice that in the next primaries. The republican base would turn against these people. "
Most Republicans are simply concerned with securing their own power.
In Georgia, for example, there are important runoff elections coming up.
If the senators there won, the Republicans could defend their majority in the Senate.
And the base just loves Trump.
Anyone who has political career ambitions befriends this group of voters.
After all, with their help, Trump managed to get more votes than any other Republican candidate before him.
Douglas Lawrence, author of "Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown 2020"
"And so he can continue to have this powerful influence on the Republican base in the years to come. So we could have got rid of Trump, but we may still be long not rid of Trumpism. "
Trump's son Donald Jr. is also assuming this.
According to information from the US media, he and his girlfriend Kimberley Guilfoyle have ambitions for high posts within the Republican party organization.
And that might make the venerable Grand Old Party shudder next:
Archive - Republican Congress, August 2020
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's campaign advisor
"Ladies and gentlemen, leaders and fighters for freedom and liberty and the American Dream, the best is yet to come!"