U.S. President Donald Trump is coming to grips with his re-election defeat, according to aides and advisers, even as he continues to publicly discredit the outcome and delay the start of the official transition to President-elect Joe Biden’s administration.
Trump began a tweet Sunday morning with the phrase "He won,” interpreted by even fellow Republicans as a possible concession. But pressure is growing both from Biden’s team and from within Trump’s party for the government to begin the formal transition process, delayed by the president’s refusal to concede.
"I think that’s a start of an acknowledgment,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said on "Meet the Press.” After news organizations published stories saying Trump had acknowledged defeat for the first time, the president followed up with a tweet proclaiming, "I concede NOTHING!”
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