Trump and Hawley set off Republican meltdown with Georgia elections looming

 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/02/politics/trump-hawley-electoral-college-georgia/index.html

President Donald Trump is stoking division in the Republican ranks days before control of the Senate -- and the balance of power in Washington -- is decided in a pair of runoff elections in Georgia.

After more than four years of nearly unbroken fealty to the President, a heavy majority of Senate Republicans broke with Trump in a Friday vote overriding his veto of a bipartisan defense policy bill. With that loyalty test failed, Trump is also lashing out at Republicans who are refusing to get on board with a dead-end attempt to throw out the election results and erase his loss to President-elect Joe Biden when Congress counts the electoral votes next week.