'Their shame is eternal': Conservative attorney rips 2020 GOP following Trump victory

On Wednesday morning, major news agencies — from CNN to the Associated Press (AP) — were reporting that Donald Trump, having won at least 279 electoral votes, was president-elect.

Trump, in the vote count, was ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in all seven of the battleground states where both them had been campaigning aggressively.

Trump is now the first presidential candidate since Grover Cleveland to win two non-consecutive terms. And he is the first president-elect in U.S. history who will be returning to the White House despite waiting to be sentenced on 34 felony counts.

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Conservative attorney Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law, is arguing that Trump's 2024 victory could have been avoided if Republicans had truly shunned him after the 2020 election.

On X, formerly Twitter, Nunziata posted, "A few dozen influential Republicans could have finished Trump in 20. They thought he should be finished, wanted him finished, but thought it safer for them personally to not get involved. Their shame is eternal."

After the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building, GOP leaders — including then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) — clearly blamed him for the violence.

But Trump went on to win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, defeating Harris in the general election. And both McConnell and McCarthy endorsed him.

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