Trump may have to leave office but he gets to take with him one of his most powerful weapons to shape party behavior: His Twitter account.
"The epiphany is not happening and for his own sake it's time for Biden to shift gears," said Adam Jentleson, a former Senate Democratic leadership aide.Some Republicans say his indulgence of Trump is about Georgia.I think he's trying to show some deference to Trump in hopes of promoting party unity ahead of the Georgia runoff," said Alex Conant, a Republican campaign veteran who has also worked in the Senate.
On the campaign trail last year, Biden repeatedly promised a GOP "epiphany" after Trump was out of the way."With Donald Trump gone, the fear of retribution has been taken away," Biden told donors, according to Bloomberg News.One of them is Tim Miller, a veteran GOP operative who worked to defeat Trump and officially left the party this week
In a recent Monmouth poll, 76 percent of Republicans said they're not confident the 2020 election was conducted fairly and accurately
That has prevented the sort of blowout election that Biden and the Democrats were counting on to crush the remnants of Trumpism in his party
In a Morning Consult/Politico poll out this week, 68 percent of GOP voters said Trump is more in touch with them than are Republicans in Congress