Michael R. Bloomberg

Trump Lost. Republican Leaders Need to Say So.

If the president won’t concede, Republicans will have to lead.

Heading out.

Photographer: Jabin Botsford/Washington Post via Getty Images

Could anyone have doubted that Donald Trump would go out like this?

Having lost the election decisively — by 74 votes in the Electoral College, and by 6 million and counting overall — he has availed himself of every imaginable scheme to undermine the vote’s legitimacy and obscure what was plainly a fair and square victory for his opponent, President-elect Joe Biden.