A Republican official in Georgia on Monday urged President Trump to respect the results of the Electoral College and grant if he did not get the required votes. Later, stated the Electoral College Biden President-elect wins.
“Our founding fathers established the electoral system for a reason. The Electoral College votes and they are the ones who decide who will be the president of the United States,” Jason Shepherd, president of the Cobb County Republican Party, told Elaine Quijano, anchor for “Red & Blue” on CBSN.
“At the end of the day, it’s the voters who will make the decision. If they chose Joe Biden, then Joe Biden is the president, and right now it’s time for Donald Trump to grant this election,” he said.
Trump has stated without evidence that there was massive fraud in the November election and has refused to concede. The president and his allies have been unsuccessful in challenging Biden’s victory in court.
Trump voters split a new CBS News / YouGov poll on whether Trump should concede after the Electoral College vote. The poll found that only 18% of Trump voters thought Mr. Biden was the legitimate winner of the November election, but 98% of Trump voters thought Republicans were the legitimate winners of House seats. and the Senate they won.
Shepherd encouraged Republican voters not to stay in the January 5 bark, which determines Senate control. Cobb County has more than half a million voters. The historically conservative county voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016; Biden widened the margin in 2020 to 56% of the vote.
“The best thing you can do if you don’t trust the system is go out and vote. Test the system,” he told voters. “If the election is stolen by any kind of electoral fraud, it will only be a very, very close election.”
After the Electoral College affirmed the victory of Mr. Biden, several prominent Republicans in the Senate he also acknowledged the race was over. Republican Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana said “today marks a turning point in which we must set aside politics and respect the constitutional process that determines the winner of our presidential election,” and Sen. of the Republican Party, Rob Portman, of Ohio, said the Electoral College vote “makes it clear that Joe Biden is now president-elect.”