North Dakota GOP Senator Kevin Cramer was on Meet the Press this morning defending what Trump is doing. He basically said this was all perfectly normal procedure to contest the results and ask for recounts and all the rest, made a snarky remark about Trump supporters not resorting to violence (as opposed to all those antifa Democrats I guess), and refused to say that Biden had won the election, but did say that at some point "if Biden wins" the transition process will need to begin. Chuck Todd actually did try to pin him down, pointing out that three other elections since 2000 were all considerably closer (2004, 2012, 2016) without the results being contested, and that Trump and his minions like Giuliani were deliberately trying to delegitimize the election process itself. Cramer seemed clearly uncomfortable and became increasingly defensive as the interview went on. At the end of the interview Todd thanked Cramer for agreeing to appear, as apparently MTP had a difficult time getting any Congressional Republicans to appear on the show this weekend.
On ABC's This Week even Chris Christie slammed Trump's legal teams as a "national embarrassment", said that if they had evidence of vote fraud they needed to produce it immediately, and basically said that he ought to concede. He did get really angry when the Democratic consultant on the roundtable called him and other Republicans out for supporting Trump all along and said that at some point Republicans like Christie are going to have to decide what they support, the national interest or Trump's interests and feelings. He blew up at that.
But, yeah, all of this is just a big nothingburger with no disturbing signs for the future, and leading Republicans aren't still lemmings trembling at the thought of facing Trump's wrath. For good measure, there was a brief clip of Senator Susan Collins in a quavering voice saying that she just didn't approve of Trump firing so many people recently, and looking very concerned as usual. The general consensus on both roundtables was that Trump isn't going away after the election, and that he'll be plaguing Republicans well into the future. Stephanopoulos said that he's been hearing around DC that Trump's endgame might be to eventually allow the transition to begin and agree to leave office, but that he'll never formally concede, will continue to convince his supporters that the election was stolen, and will announce that he's already planning on running again in 2024. Fun times.