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Members of the US Republican Party have reacted differently to Republican President Donald Trump's claims about the 2020 United States presidential election, with some denouncing it and others supporting it. Trump falsely claimed to have won the election,[1][2][3] and made many claims of widespread fraud arising from postal voting, despite substantial evidence to the contrary.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Background

Summary

From six months before,[10] during, and after the 2020 United States elections, most notably during a speech he held late on November 5, President Donald Trump, who was running for re-election on the Republican Party ticket, suggested and claimed that large-scale electoral fraud would happen, was happening or had happened, to the effect that would make him lose his presidential re-election. In the days after Election Day November 3, 2020, Trump also demanded that the vote counting be stopped in some swing states (Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina), where he was slowly losing his lead to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, until Republican observers could meaningfully observe and challenge the vote counting process. Concurrently, Trump demanded that the vote counting be continued in the swing state of Arizona, where he was catching up on Biden. Several prominent members of his Republican Party, including recently elected or former officials, have denounced Trump's claims of election fraud before, during, and after the 2020 United States elections as unsubstantiated, baseless or without evidence, as well as damaging to the election process, undermining democracy and dangerous to political stability.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]

Before Election Day

Months before Election Day, Democrats regularly condemned President Trump's suggestions that widespread electoral fraud would occur (especially through the use of mail-in ballots, a claim Trump first made on April 7, 2020, [20]), but Republicans rarely did.[21] Attempts by Politico to obtain comments from prominent Republicans on the issue mostly failed; Miles Taylor (former Homeland Security chief of staff of Secretary and author of "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration") and Michael Steele (former chairman of the Republican National Committee) were among the few they could find expressing serious concerns about Trump's comments.[21] Politico stated on the morning of November 3 that '[m]any Republicans insist they are disgusted by Trump's threats, they just aren't willing to say so publicly.'[21]

November 4: counting transparency

After Election Day, in the afternoon of November 4, the Trump campaign sued Michigan and Pennsylvania, alleging that they were not being given proper access to monitoring the vote counting process, and demanded the counting had to stop. The Trump team declared that they had already won the state of Pennsylvania at a moment when Trump was leading by 320,000 votes, but only 85% of the votes had been counted, and it was known that the vote counting in the city of Philadelphia could still tip the balance in favor of Biden. Eric Trump alleged that 'the Democrats' would try to 'cheat in Pennsylvania'.[22][23] However, Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, who oversaw the city's counting and was himself a Republican, rejected claims that the process lacked transparency, as observers were able to see everything that was happening in the counting hall.[22]

Trump's November 5 speech

Donald Trump's November 5 speech alleging large-scale electoral fraud is at the core of the controversy.

According to CNBC, there was mostly silence within the Republican Party shortly after Trump's speech from the White House late at night on November 5.[24] Rick Santorum, Ben Sasse, Mitt Romney, Larry Hogan, and Chris Christie were among the first Republicans to criticize the President's remarks as indefensible.[24][18] Combined with a statement from Nikki Haley that some deemed to concede Trump's defeat, several Republicans including Trump's sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump rebuked other Republicans for staying silent and not supporting the President's allegations of electoral fraud.[24][25] According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on November 5, only about 30% of Republican Americans believed that Trump had won the election; the vast majority of Americans, including most Republicans, believed Biden had.[26]

November 6: Critics and Loyalists

Some Trump loyalists such as Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Kevin McCarthy endorsed the false claims that Trump had actually won the election and that there was large-scale fraud, and called on Republicans to stay united behind Trump. Over 20 other leading Republicans denounced Trump's accusations of voter fraud on November 6.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][19] Some observers concluded that statements denouncing or supporting Trump's claims were (also) part of a conflict inside the Republican Party over who should be their nominee for the 2024 presidential election, and whether to continue or discontinue Trumpist politics.[25][27]

November 7: several Republicans congratulate Biden while others refuse

On November 7, most major American news networks called the election a victory for Biden when vote-counting in Pennsylvania and Nevada reached the point where he would certainly receive the 270 electors' votes needed for the presidency. The Trump campaign refused to concede defeat and instead asserted that 'the election was far from over.'[28] Several leading Republicans including Mitt Romney, Larry Hogan, John Kasich, Phil Scott, Adam Kinzinger, Will Hurd, Paul Mitchell, Fred Upton, Lamar Alexander, Tom Reed, and Jeb Bush, proceeded to congratulate Biden as the new President-elect (and Kamala Harris as Vice President-elect) of the United States; others such as Josh Hawley and Paul Gosar insisted that the election was not over yet until 'all lawful votes have been counted, recounts finished, and allegations of fraud addressed'.[29][30][31] Just before the media called the election, re-elected Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw tweeted 'If Trump loses, he loses. It was never an impossible outcome and we must accept the final results when it is over', to which newly elected Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (a QAnon conspiracy theory supporter) responded, "The time to STAND UP for (President Donald Trump) is RIGHT NOW. Republicans can't back down." Crenshaw criticized her for trying to 'talk tough' and said: 'You're a member of Congress now, Marjorie. Start acting like one,' while stressing that any irregularity should be addressed.[32]

November 8: George W. Bush congratulates Biden and Harris

George W. Bush: '(...) this election was fundamentally fair, its integrity will be upheld, and its outcome is clear.'[33]

On November 8, former President George W. Bush (2001–2009), the previous Republican President, congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris by phone, and said in a statement: 'The American people can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair, its integrity will be upheld, and its outcome is clear.' He further stated: 'The President-elect reiterated that while he ran as a Democrat, he will govern for all Americans. I offered him the same thing I offered Presidents Trump and Obama: my prayers for his success, and my pledge to help in any way I can.' While congratulating Trump 'on a hard-fought campaign' and saying he 'has the right to request recounts and pursue legal challenges,' Bush stated the election's outcome was clearly in Biden's favor.[33][34][35] According to Forbes, 'most Trump allies and congressional Republicans' had by then either stayed silent or explicitly refused to congratulate Biden and Harris, but the number of Republicans who did was growing.[36] After Bush's declaration, Trump ally Chris Christie stepped up the pressure on Trump to provide evidence of electoral fraud if he wanted Republicans to support his cause: 'If your basis for not conceding is [because] there was voter fraud, then show us. Because if you don't show us, we can't do this. We can't back you blindly without evidence.'[37] CNN claimed two sources had said Trump's son-in-law and Director of the Office of American Innovation Jared Kushner had urged the President to accept the loss, while a third, separate source alleged that First Lady Melania Trump had tried to convince her husband as well.[38] Roy Blunt repeated his earlier statement that Trump had been making baseless claims and that 'it's time for the president's lawyers to present the facts', but when asked by ABC's George Stephanopoulos, he refused to acknowledge for the time being that Biden had won; Pat Toomey took a similar but softer stance.[39] Kristi Noem, on the other hand, pushed the narrative of widespread fraud, but was unable to present evidence when pressed by Stephanopoulos.[39]

See also: List of lawsuits relating to the 2020 United States presidential election and List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump § Trump 2020 Campaign-related lawsuits by state

At the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference, the Trump campaign team had announced it would formally present several legal challenges against the election process and results on Monday, November 9, refusing to concede the Biden/Harris victory. Speaking on the condition of anonymity to the Associated Press, senior officials, campaign aides and allies said that '[t]he strategy to wage a legal fight against the votes tallied for Biden in Pennsylvania and other places is more to provide Trump with an off-ramp for a loss he can't quite grasp and less about changing the election's outcome.' Some of them even had 'deep reservations about the president's attempts to undermine faith in the vote.'[40] Similarly, The Washington Post reported on Monday that '[b]ehind the scenes, Trump advisers and allies are increasingly resigned to a Biden victory, according to people familiar with internal discussions, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to share private conversations.'[41]

In response Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated that “President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options.” [42] Texas senator John Cornyn and Iowa senator Chuck Grassley were among the Republicans who said that they hadn't yet seen any evidence of widespread voting fraud that could change the election, while saying the President had the right to legally investigate allegations of fraud. Close Trump ally Graham also referred to minor incidents that he admitted wouldn't yet change the election result, and said he would accept a loss in the courts.[43]

That same day, ABC News noted that actually very few members of the Trump administration and White House staff itself had so far explicitly supported Trump's claims of electoral fraud, or asserted that he won the election; Vice President Mike Pence only went so far as tweeting he stood by President Trump in saying that every legal vote should be counted, and otherwise remained silent.[44] Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan of the key swing state of Georgia stated: 'We've not had any sort of credible incidents [of widespread systemic voter fraud or irregularities] raised to our level yet.'[45] At a press conference, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany accused Democrats of encouraging fraud and illegal voting. Notably, Fox News decided to cut away during her speech because host Neil Cavuto found it irresponsible to continue broadcasting such 'an explosive charge'. Previously, Fox News had continuously aired most of President Trump's press conferences and rallies, regardless of the false claims he made during his speeches.[46]

In a highly contentious move U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who had previously supported Trump's unfounded claims about voter fraud, authorized the investigation of alleged voting irregularities before the states had certified the election results, prompting Richard Pilger, director of the elections crimes branch in the Justice Department, to resign in protest.[42] Pilger stated that Barr's action was 'abrogating the forty-year-old Non-Interference Policy for ballot fraud investigations in the period prior to elections becoming certified and uncontested'.[47]

Meanwhile, Republican senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler from Georgia demanded Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to resign for '[failing] to deliver honest and transparent elections' after his voting system manager, Gabriel Sterling (a lifelong Republican), called the claims of electoral fraud 'hoaxes and nonsense', 'fake news' and 'disinformation' in a Monday morning press conference, but Raffensperger (also a Republican) rejected the demand outright, adding that any incidents of voter fraud were unlikely to tip the balance of Biden's lead of more than 12,000 votes (0.25%) towards Trump for Georgia's 16 electors.[48] He called Perdue and Loeffler's claim of lack of transparency 'laughable'.[49]

November 10: Pompeo rejects Biden's victory, other Republicans privately acknowledge

On November 10, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sparked outrage among diplomats when he told journalists during a press conference that there would be a 'smooth transition to a second Trump administration', because he was confident that the vote counting would still result in a Trump victory.[50] John Bolton, National Security Advisor in the Trump administration from 2018 to 2019, who had already denounced Trump's fraud claims days earlier,[16] was highly critical of Pompeo's remarks, saying he had 'eviscerated his credibility' and was 'delusional'.[51] Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Chris Coons from Delaware told CNN that several Republican senators had privately acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden's victory to him in phone calls, asking him 'to convey their well-wishes to the President-elect', but they weren't yet willing to do so publicly themselves. At that point, four Republican senators had publicly recognized Biden, and Coons expected others to follow that week.[52]

An inquiry from The New York Times showed that throughout the country, election officials representing both parties reported no evidence of significant voter fraud, even though some Republican candidates running for office were casting doubt on the results without proof.[49] Republican officials criticized unsupported allegations, with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose stating: 'There's a great human capacity for inventing things that aren't true about elections. The conspiracy theories and rumors and all those things run rampant.'[49] Kansas Republican Secretary of State Scott Schwab wrote in an email: 'Kansas did not experience any widespread, systematic issues with voter fraud, intimidation, irregularities or voting problems.'[49] Republican Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman determined the election was free of fraud. Her assessment was rebuked by Republican candidate Loren Culp, who lost his gubernatorial race against Democrat Jay Inslee by a large margin of 14%, leading Wyman to say: 'It's just throwing grass at the fence at this point, see what sticks.'[49] Republican Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton tweeted: 'I have supported you, Mr. President. @realDonaldTrump accomplished some incredible things during your time in office! But that time is now over! Tip your hat, bite your lip, and congratulate @JoeBiden.'[49]

November 11: Senior Republicans call on Trump to concede

On November 11, Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich, a Republican, stated that he had not found any evidence of significant fraud that could change the outcome of that state's result. He said it was 'very, highly unlikely' that Trump would receive enough votes from the last remaining uncounted ballots to beat Biden's 13,000 vote lead, and thus obtain Arizona's 11 electors. Even without these, Biden would still have 279 electors, enough to gain the presidency with a large margin.[53] Meanwhile, pressure was mounting on Trump to concede defeat: most foreign heads of state or government had already congratulated President-elect Biden, who a day earlier had labeled Trump's refusal to concede 'an embarrassment'. Senior Republicans who had already acknowledged the Democratic nominee's victory were publicly calling on the President to do the same, with former Defense Secretary and former US Senator from Maine William Cohen describing Trump's behavior as 'more akin to a dictatorship than a democracy'.[54] Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker commented: 'I'm dismayed to hear the baseless claims from the president, from his team, and from many other elected Republican officials in Washington. I can't think of a worse time to stall a transition than amid a deadly pandemic.'[54] Maryland governor Larry Hogan added: 'Most people realize that this election is over. It's really dangerous, I think, in the middle of this pandemic, this economic collapse, people dying across the country, to not know if we're going to have a transition.'[54]

Senate Ethics Committee Chair James Lankford, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma, demanded the Trump adminstration to give President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris access to the President's Daily Brief, the daily presidential intelligence briefings on national security issues. Lankford took the pragmatic position of not yet acknowledging Biden and Harris as elects while Trump's legal challenges were ongoing, but recognized they would form the next administration if the lawsuits failed, and said they needed to be informed about the country's pressing security issues to be prepared before taking office. This practice during the presidential lame duck period was long established, even during the contested 2000 presidential election, Lankford argued, warning he would intervene if the Trump administration would not grant Biden/Harris access by the end of the week.[55]

Denounced

Mitt Romney: '[Trump] is wrong to say that the election was rigged, corrupt and stolen.'[16]
Rick Santorum: 'No Republican elected official is gonna stand behind [Trump's November 5] statement.'[56]
Larry Hogan: 'There is no defense for the President’s comments tonight undermining our democratic process.'[13]
Adam Kinzinger: 'STOP Spreading debunked misinformation... This is getting insane.'[13]
Ben Sasse: 'If the president's legal team has real evidence, they need to present it immediately.'[14]
Dan Crenshaw: 'If Trump loses, he loses. It was never an impossible outcome and we must accept the final results when it is over.'[32]
Chris Christie: '[If] there was voter fraud, then show us. ... We can’t back you blindly without evidence.'[37]
Charlie Baker: 'I'm dismayed to hear the baseless claims from the president and his team.'[54]

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Eric Trump: 'Where are Republicans! Have some backbone. Fight against this fraud.'[25]
Kevin McCarthy: 'President Trump won this election. So (...) do not be silent about this. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes.'[16]
Lindsey Graham: 'I'm here tonight to stand with President Trump. (...). I don't trust Philadelphia.'[16]

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