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听On 鈥淔ox & Friends鈥� Wednesday morning, co-host Brian Kilmeade offered some advice to President Donald Trump 鈥� a regular viewer.
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听"It's in the country's best interest if he starts coordinating on the virus and starts coordinating on security with the Biden team," said Mr. Kilmeade.
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听For now, President Trump isn鈥檛 showing any signs of relenting in his legal fight against the 2020 election results in key battleground states. As we鈥檝e said before, he has the right to do that. But there鈥檚 also a major downside to the way Mr. Trump fights, including his torrent of tweets claiming the election was stolen 鈥� tweets that have no apparent basis in fact and deepen the nation鈥檚 political divide.
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听Monitor reporter Christa Case Bryant wrote an excellent piece Monday exploring that terrain: the numerous so-far-unsuccessful Trump lawsuits and their potential political impact.
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听鈥淚f what he has done is convince Republican voters and activists that 鈥業 didn鈥檛 really lose,鈥� that gives him a relevance that Jimmy Carter or George H.W. Bush didn鈥檛 possess,鈥� says Henry Olsen of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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听The Kilmeade comment merely makes a practical suggestion: Proceed with transition activities as a protection to Americans, foremost on the pandemic and national security. Mr. Trump need not concede the election to take that step.
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听Meanwhile, the president is digging in 鈥� literally. He鈥檚 canceled plans to spend Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago. More important, he鈥檚 fired Christopher Krebs, the administration鈥檚 top cybersecurity official, who fought election disinformation with this Rumor Control website. Mr. Krebs and other officials had declared the 2020 election 鈥渢he most secure in American history,鈥� contradicting the president鈥檚 claims otherwise.
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听In Michigan, a Tuesday night GOP revolt over election certification in heavily Democratic Wayne County resolved within hours after a public outcry. But Republicans are still trying to block certification of results in other battleground states, including Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
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听In Wisconsin, the Trump campaign announced Wednesday it would fund a recount in two heavily Democratic counties. Then there鈥檚 Georgia, where Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has withstood attacks from fellow Republicans, including Mr. Trump, over how the voting was conducted. Unofficially, Democrat Joe Biden is slightly ahead there, amid a hand recount of all 5 million votes.
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听鈥淲e鈥檙e going to continue the process and, as a Republican, I think that I鈥檒l probably be disappointed in the result,鈥� Mr. Raffensperger told The Associated Press. 鈥淏ut as the secretary of state, I can be very comfortable in the counting of the ballots.鈥�
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听Let us know what you鈥檙e thinking at csmpolitics@csmonitor.com.