GOP senators ready to acknowledge Biden won but struggle with Trump's refusal to concede https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/republican-reaction-trump-refusal-to-concede/index.html A growing number of Senate Republicans are ready to publicly acknowledge what's been widely known for weeks but what they've refused to say: Joe Biden won the presidency and will be sworn in on January 20. What they're less certain about: What President Donald Trump will do after the Electoral College votes on Monday and how they plan to respond if he won't concede after Biden is the official winner. "Trump's going to do what Trump is going to do," said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has asserted that Biden will be the President-elect once the Electoral College votes on Monday, but told CNN that it's Trump's call on conceding the race. "That's the only answer I'm going to give you." For weeks, Republicans in the House and Senate have refused to acknowledge Biden's victory, arguing that Trump has a right to pursue his case in court and staying mostly silent as the President wages a rhetorical assault on a foundation of democracy by arguing baselessly that the election was "stolen" and "rigged." And after interviews with more than two dozen Republican senators, many of them have pointed to December 14 as the defining moment -- when electors meet in their state capitals to make the results official. Yet they are also confronting a new reality: Biden will officially clinch the necessary electoral votes to assume the presidency and the President is showing no signs of letting up. Many Republicans won't say if they'll acknowledge the electoral reality next week. But others are ready to move on and acknowledge Biden won. (More at above url)