https://news.yahoo.com/gop-politicians-backing-trump-weakening-142113841.html
Matt Mathers
Tue, December 15, 2020, 9:21 AM EST
Politicians who publicly refuse to accept president Donald Trump's election defeat are "weakening" America's position in the world, a Republican governor has said.
Maryland governor Larry Hogan on Monday said the GOP politicians backing Mr Trump's efforts to subvert the democratic process are "diminishing" the office of the president.
His comments came as electoral college electors put Joe Biden, president-elect, over the 270 vote threshold needed to enter the White House come January next year.
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Mr Hogan said he accepted that the president had the legal right to challenge the results in key battleground states.
But since his legal team has failed to produce any credible evidence of widespread voter fraud, "we just have to acknowledge" Mr Biden won the election, said Mr Hogan.
Refusing to do so is "embarrassing us", the Republican governor said. "It's an affront to our democratic process and it's diminishing the presidency."
He added: "I think it's bad for our party, bad for the country, and it weakens our position in the world."
Despite the pleas of Mr Hogan and other GOP figures, Mr Trump is showing no signs of giving up his attempts to overturn an election he lost by 74 Electoral College votes - an exact reversal of his 2016 win, which he claimed was a landslide.
[Of course, our adversaries, including Russia and China, must be pleased. It has been noted that Trump has had nothing to say about the apparent Russian hacking of U.S. agencies.]
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