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closest to donald trump was that he would eventually accept reality. there were people around trump, jared kushner, mark meadows, in particular who were telling, you know, senior republicans in congress that trump will concede. he was going to get there, he was going to accept it. and it s not clear how much of that was just wish casting. most republicans in congress spent those first few weeks telling reporters that trump had every right to pursue legal remedies, but the cases then failed. over and over the trump team had no credible evidence of significant fraud. but most republicans would not acknowledge reality, not wanting to poke the bear. that s partly because in 2021 there were georgia senate runoff elections coming up, but they needed trump to help them win. kelly fights for me, david fights for me, that i can tell you. and partly because they had giant spending bills they needed