Can the GOP get out of the bubble, post-Trump?

THAT it took Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell six weeks to admit that the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has won this year's race to the White House says a lot about the current condition of the Grand Old Party (GOP).

In fact, days after CNN's Wolf Blitzer called the presidential race for Mr Biden at 11.24 am on Nov 7, the majority of Republican members of the House of Representatives, joined by leading GOP figures and conservative columnists and bloggers, refused to concede that their party has lost the presidential race and refrained from recognising the former vice-president as the country's President-elect.

Indeed, more than 60 per cent of House Republicans - including their leader, Minority Leader of California, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California - have joined a legal brief to overturn President-elect Biden's victory, that was introduced by the State of Texas before the Supreme Court and which was eventually rejected by the highest court in the land.