Senator Lisa Murkowski - a Republican who charts a more independent
course and has acknowledged Biden’s victory - late on Sunday said it
was time to start the full transition process. She denounced efforts
by some Trump supporters to overturn election results in some states
as “not only unprecedented but inconsistent with our democratic
process.”

Calls for Trump to accept defeat have been stronger outside
Washington, even from some of his staunchest supporters, including
former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who called Trump’s behavior
“a national embarrassment” in an interview on ABC.

And more than 100 former Republican national security officials
published a letter on Monday asking that party leaders denounce
Trump’s refusal to concede, calling it a dangerous assault on
democracy and national security.

- Reuters news service