Five years later, the Republican Party’s relationship to Donald Trump is ending as it began — in purgatory.
The real estate mogul turned reality TV star turned most powerful man on Earth’s continuing resistance to the reality that he lost the 2020 presidential election has stranded the GOP in a kind of no man’s land, unable either to look back to its recent past with him or ahead to its new life without him.
A few Republicans, such as Senators Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, and Susan Collins, have congratulated Joe Biden on his victory. But as an institution, the GOP is still standing behind the president as he pursues a series of lawsuits challenging results in the handful of battleground states that decided the election. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke for the party when he declared that Trump is “100 percent within his rights” to pursue available legal remedies.
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