CNN quotes a White House source saying Trump “is starting to acknowledge to advisers around him that he may not be able to pull out a come-from-behind victory.”
This does not mean Trump is about to concede or abandon legal challenges, the source stresses, but the president is starting to be “realistic.”
The source pointed to Trump’s recent tweet telling Biden not to “wrongfully claim the office of the president,” and described it as very toned down, since Trump added the relatively mild: “I could make that claim also.”
If the president loses not only Pennsylvania but also Arizona and Georgia, the source reportedly adds, his legal challenges in Pennsylvania would be redundant since Biden would have more than 270 electoral college votes anyway.
“Not a puff of white smoke from the West Wing,” sums up CNN. But a certain new “realism.”
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