Election denialism spreads through the Republican Party

This appeared in The Millennial Source

As President Trump’s legal efforts to overturn votes, stop counts and seek, in a variety of ways, to invalidate President-elect Biden’s win fail in the courts, the vast majority of the Republican Party has remained by his side.

On Saturday, November 7, the Democratic nominee for president, former Vice President Joe Biden, had built up a significant enough lead in the crucial state of Pennsylvania to win the state and, with it, secure the 270 electoral college votes needed to be elected the 46th president of the United States.

But you wouldn’t know it listening to prominent Republican politicians and lawmakers.

Taking their lead from President Donald Trump, who repeatedly disputed the election results even before the major news networks had announced Biden as president-elect, Republican politicians have one by one fallen in line by disputing the results and refusing to congratulate President-elect Biden.

The degrees of denialism vary. Some have simply echoed calls for every “legal” vote to be counted, baselessly suggesting that Biden won the election based on “illegal” votes. Others have been more forceful by supporting President Trump’s attempts in court to overturn the will of the voters.