The Christian Science Monitor Daily for December 18, 2020
President Donald Trump has always put a premium on personal loyalty. But this postelection period – in which he has continued to press unfounded claims of fraud even as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office – has presented Republican officials with a stark test, and created new fissures in the party. In Georgia, where two Jan. 5 runoff elections will determine control of the U.S. Senate, incumbent GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue have sided with the president in bashing their own state’s election apparatus and the Republican officials in charge of it. By amplifying ...