Trump’s refusal to concede stalls GOP
reckoning over 2020 loss
One month after he lost reelection to former vice president Joe Biden by 7 million votes, President Trump has persuaded much of his base that he did not, in fact, lose the election. That effort has involved attacks on Georgia Republican officials who he says have not done enough to overturn the results, triggering a war inside a party trying to win two runoff elections that will determine control of the Senate.
Trump’s pronouncements appear to be geared toward boosting his political future, which he’s strongly hinted will include a 2024 presidential run.
But they come with a lesser-noticed, long-term risk for Republicans. It is difficult for a political party to figure out why it lost an election and how to fix its mistakes — an agonizing process for Democrats after losing the White House in 2016 — when the most important person in the party has convinced so many people that he did not, in fact, lose.
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