Trump news - Republican senators begin to turn on president as Georgia confirms Biden win
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Donald Trump is facing an increasing revolt among Republican senators, with at least three having openly criticised the US president in the last 48 hours.
Mitt Romney, Lamar Alexander and Susan Collins have all called on the US president to give up his attempts to pressurise state election officials into supporting his baseless claims of mass voter fraud.
Several House Republicans, including Liz Cheney, have made similar calls, describing the legal efforts of the Trump campaign as “embarrassing”.
The criticism comes as Georgia’s secretary of state on Friday certified Joe Biden as the winner of the state’s recount. With the official results reported, Brad Raffensperger certified that Mr Biden won the recount by 12,670 votes.
Biden leaves event without press pool
Not a popular move by the president-elect judging by the reaction on Twitter.
The final act of an increasingly desperate administration?
Kayleigh McEnany now calls CNN reporters ‘activists’ and takes question from pro-Trump propagandists
This looked like the final act of an increasingly desperate administration
Remember when?
Veteran journalist Dan Rather is also the king of the snarky, but pointed tweet.
That’s all for today from our rolling coverage of the Trump administration and the aftermath of the election.
A date for your calendar — the president will pardon the National Thanksgiving Turkey on 24 November.
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