Trump’s Alternate Reality Is Crumbling As Marco Rubio Calls Joe Biden President-Elect

Donald Trump’s alternate actuality cracked a bit bit extra on Monday as Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio – a person who has gone from Trump opponent to Trump loyalist – admitted that Joe Biden is the president-elect.

The second got here when Rubio was requested about Sen. Angus King (I-ME), a possible Biden decide for director of nationwide intelligence.

“Effectively, that’ll be the president-elect’s resolution, clearly,” Rubio stated. “It’s a bit untimely for that however yeah I get together with him nicely.”

Rubio calls Biden president-elect when requested about Sen. Angus King as his potential DNI, through pool:

“Effectively, that’ll be the president-elect’s resolution, clearly…It’s a bit untimely for that however yeah I get together with him nicely,” he stated of King

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) November 16, 2020

Final week, Politico reported that King, a member of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Providers committees, was in rivalry for the DNI position.

Republican cracks starting to emerge?

It shouldn’t be breaking information every time a Republican official calls Joe Biden by the title he decisively earned, however that’s the place we’re proper now as Donald Trump and most GOP leaders refuse to acknowledge actuality.

Rubio’s obvious admission that Biden would be the subsequent president comes after one other outstanding Republican official, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, used the right title when referring to the previous vice chairman.

“We have to take into account the previous vice chairman because the president-elect,” DeWine said final week on CNN. “Joe Biden is the president-elect.”

DeWine also said that he believes “we have to start” the transition from the Trump administration to the Biden administration “for the nation’s sake.”

Predictably, Trump responded by throwing a tantrum on Monday and urging one other candidate to tackle DeWine within the 2022 governor’s race in Ohio.

Donald Trump can maintain residing in an alternate actuality, however as time passes and extra Republican lawsuits get laughed out of court docket, a rising variety of GOP officers are going to begin stating the apparent: On Jan. 20, 2021, Joe Biden will grow to be president of the US.

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Sean Colarossi presently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts diploma in Journalism from the College of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for each of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He additionally labored with Deliberate Parenthood as an Reasonably priced Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, serving to northeast Ohio residents get hold of medical insurance protection.