Politico: “Most Republicans have been reluctant to contradict Trump’s claim that he can still hold the White House, but there’s been a steady trickle of GOP lawmakers defecting from Trump’s false contention that he was robbed by fraudsters. After Trump tweeted Monday, ‘I won the election,’ Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) told reporters, ‘I wouldn’t have advised he put it that way.’ Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Trump can and should continue his legal challenges but has ‘every confidence on Jan. 20 we’re going to inaugurate a president. And it will probably be Joe Biden.’ ‘It grows increasingly unlikely that a remedy would involve overturning the election,’ said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who said he nonetheless supports Trump’s goals of exposing even small cases of malfeasance on ballots.”

“Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, referred to Biden as the president-elect unprompted, saying ‘that’s what the results, the preliminary results, seem to indicate, and we certainly have to anticipate that that’s the highest likelihood at this point.’ ‘We have to assume right now, based upon the current electoral count, that we are getting closer to the point where the facts on the ground will bear that out,’ Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said when asked about Trump’s lawsuits fizzling in court. ‘Right now, it looks like it will be President Biden. We understand that.’ Yet acknowledging the fact that Biden will soon be president risks angering Trump and his legion of supporters — including those the GOP needs to turn out in a pair of Georgia runoffs to determine Senate control. Most Republican leaders still won’t do anything to push Trump to accept the inevitable.”