The Republicans may have lost the White House, but it doesn’t mean their party is battered and bruised.

With a conservative majority on the supreme court, and potentially retaining the Senate, the Republicans are in a good place to keep president-elect Joe Biden in check over the next four years.

But what does a Republican Party look like without Donald Trump?

Nicholas Lemann, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins Dave to talk about what the mentality is behind Trump’s challenge of the results, how party leaders may be looking to move past this election and position themselves for the midterms in two years. 

Background reading: The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump

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