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From the speaker's rostrum in the House, Senate Republican Party Leader Mitch McConnell declared yesterday: "

To this day, the United States has an elected president and vice president

. The Electoral College has spoken. Today I want to congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden. Many of us hoped the election would have had a different outcome. "

McConnell has needed a month and twelve days since the elections, or, if you want to be benevolent, a month and five days since the three consulting firms that announce the winner of the elections for the big media,

had given as the uncontroversial winner Joe Biden

.

It could be seen as an act of political realism.

But, the fact that it took 35 days for McConnell to announce the obvious is a sign of the GOP's submission to Donald Trump.

The US president

still does not acknowledge his electoral defeat

, and it seems virtually impossible that he will.

On January 20, he will leave, presumably for Florida, having lost at least 86 lawsuits in court

in what Biden called Monday "an unprecedented assault on democracy

.

"

But, in the alternate reality world of Donald Trump and his followers, that is not relevant.

Yesterday, the president of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, made a massive sending of emails to the supporters of the president "for the 2020 election campaign."

Whoever contributes more than $ 500 (411 euros)

will be able to join the "election defense team

.

"

The email stated that "we cannot allow the angry mass to undermine our elections."

To date,

Trump's

team

has raised more than 400 million dollars (329 million euros) to reap those 86 legal defeats

.

No one knows what will happen to what is left of that money after January 20.

But the precedents are interesting: although Trump has donated his salary as president, he has also been fined by the Federal Election Commission for keeping money from an event for war veterans that he organized in the 2016 campaign. He is also the only candidate for the 2016 campaign. Story that he has received

a monthly salary from his own campaign for running for office

, and has not put his businesses in a 'blind trust', which legally nothing has prevented him from continuing to manage them, and has used his hotels and country clubs as venue for meetings with American and foreign leaders.

The future of those hundreds of millions looks, therefore, confusing.

McDaniel's attitude is representative of that of most of the Republican Party.

Yesterday in the middle of afternoon, McConnell was meeting with his caucus, trying to convince them not to join the plans of a part of his co-religionists in the House of Representatives to continue questioning the results.

Only 7 of 53 Republican senators have unequivocally recognized Biden's victory, and only one - the 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney -

has criticized the legal initiatives to question the result

.

Three more imply that they accept reality, although without saying so explicitly.

And the other 33 have been playing with two decks for five weeks, although as time passes and Trump's defeat becomes clearer, they use the "wait and see" card less and less.

But where support for the outgoing president's claims is strongest is in the House of Representatives.

Two of its members affirm, directly, that Trump won.

And 168 adhere to the don't know / don't answer.

That leaves the number of Republican representatives who accept the election verdict at just 30.

The fact that 85% of the Republican representatives and 62% of the Republican senators are unable to accept the facts

foreshadows a complicated political future not just for Joe Biden, but for the United States

.

Keep in mind that, for Trump to have won, fraud should have been proven in at least three of the critical states.

In two of them there have been counts, which have not altered the result.

In fact, at Wisconsin Biden increased his lead.

Georgia has counted the votes four times, three of them with public money and only once on Trump's account.

Having a party in opposition that says that when it wins, it has won, and, when it loses, that others have cheated, is a bad sign.

It seems that very few Republicans are able to follow the example of Mitt Romney: "

I also thought I was going to win in 2012, and that did not mean I came out and said there had been fraud

."

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