As we begin to move to acknowledge the Joe Biden win and need to prepare for his Presidency….
@LisaDNews
NEW: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC just told reporters at the Capitol that he also thinks @JoeBiden should get presidential-level security briefings. “I think so,” he said. This is how GOP trying to thread the awkward needle of Trump having lost and not conceding….
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A growing number of GOP senators told CNN on Thursday that Joe Biden should have access to classified briefings, the latest indication that Republicans acknowledge the President-elect is likely on his way to the White House despite President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the results.
“I would think — especially on classified briefings — answer is yes,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who as president pro tempore is the most senior Republican in the chamber….
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Senate Majority Whip John Thune of South Dakota also told CNN that Biden should have access to classified briefings.
“Well, I think that it probably makes sense to prepare for all contingencies,” Thune said when asked if Biden should get briefings. “And as these election challenges play out in court, I don’t have a problem with, and I think it’s important from a national security standpoint, continuity. And you’ve seen other members suggesting that. I think that makes sense.”….
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Another influential Republican, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, said, “yeah, I don’t think that would hurt,” for Biden to start getting the briefings.
Those comments follow GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma who made similar remarks Wednesday on a local radio station, and several other Republicans have signaled it’s time to begin the transition process….
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Several other GOP senators have also called for Biden to have access to security briefings. Asked earlier this week if Biden should be allowed to start receiving the Presidential Daily Briefing, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters: “I don’t think it prejudices the President’s legal claims in any way to begin the transition work just in case.”….
All these Republican Senator’s didn’t get u guys message, eh?
james, you really cannot blame the ardent Democrats here for feeling as they do.
They are essentially approaching the end of a novel they have really enjoyed and don’t want the experience to end, so before they finish the last few pages, they have gone back to the beginning to try to savor it all over again.
We are just disagreeing on the next 69 days….
Of Course the Republican lawmakers KNOW Biden won…
The Georgia Senate races and Trump himself has them afraid to say what they are saying private and now in public between the line’s…
Jack is right–you are wischasting.
Maybe the Republican Party will acknowledge that Trump lost and move on. But right now they by and large are not. That you badly want them to do so doesn’t seem to matter to the vast majority of the party that still supports Donald Trump.
Yea they can support him all they want…
They are walking around in shock I’d think…
The ones I know are silent….
69 more days….
Harris Getting Classified Briefings While Biden Isn’t
“Vice President-elect Kamala Harris took part in a classified briefing of the Senate Intelligence Committee this week and emerged in a strange position — being more informed about current threats than President-elect Joe Biden but bound by congressional rules to keep that information from him,” CNN reports.
“All these”=5
“All these “five still refuse to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the election.
Guess they are not part of the thousands who check here daily for your expert analysis or they would know better!
Leaking this is literally, Winkin, that Blinken got the Nod.
FYI, National Security Advisor does not require Senate confirmation.