'Never Trumpers' Admit Trump Has Taken Over GOP, But They're Staying To Fight

(From November 25, 2020) The presidential election is over and the formal transition to the administration of President-elect Joe Biden has begun, even if President Donald Trumpcontinues to decline to concede.

Yet even though Trump was defeated, it's clear that the president's brand of divisive tweeting and disparaging nick-name politics is here to stay.

Biden won by a popular vote margin of more than 6 million votes, but Trump still gained nearly 11 million votes compared to his 2016 victory. Besides Biden, the president received more individual votes than any other presidential candidate in history. Meanwhile, the vocal conservative opponents of Trump—dubbed "Never Trumpers"—are dismayed, but not surprised by the president's takeover of their party.

"You've got to approach what that says—that 11 million [more] people after four years of Trump still signed up for another four years," Michael Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee who endorsed Biden ahead of the election, told Newsweek in an interview. (READ MORE at Newsweek)