Incoming President of the United State, Mr Joe Biden and Outgoing President Donald Trump
Outgoing President Donald Trump’s bandwagon of party members who had earlier supported his refusal to accept defeat in the presidential election depleted further on Sunday as more Republicans also urged President Trump to concede.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan told CNN on Sunday that the Trump camp’s continued efforts to overturn the election results were “beginning to look like we’re a banana republic”.
In a post on Twitter, Gov Hogan said Mr Trump should “stop golfing and concede”.
Michigan Representative Fred Upton told CNN the voters in his battleground state “spoke” by choosing Mr Biden, while North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer said in an interview to NBC it was “past time to start a transition”, although he stopped short of accepting Mr Biden’s victory.
An ally of the outgoing President and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called the president’s legal team a “national embarrassment”.
Speaking to ABC’s This Week programme on Sunday, Mr Christie, said: “Quite frankly, the conduct of the president’s legal team has been a national embarrassment”.
He said the Trump camp was often discussing election fraud “outside the courtroom, but when they go inside the courtroom they don’t plead fraud and they don’t argue fraud”.
“I have been a supporter of the president’s. I voted for him twice. But elections have consequences, and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn’t happen.”
Mr Christie was the first governor to endorse Mr Trump as a presidential candidate back in 2016. He also helped prepare the US president for his debates with Mr Biden earlier this year.
He singled out for criticism Sidney Powell, a lawyer who appeared with Trump’s legal team during a press conference on Thursday who, without providing evidence, said that electronic voting systems switched millions of ballots to Biden, and that he also won thanks to “communist money”.
But on Sunday the Trump campaign issued a statement distancing themselves from Ms Powell, saying she “is practicing law on her own” and was “not a member of the Trump legal team”.
A tweet from President Trump earlier this month explicitly named her as part of the team.
