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Chris SikichIndianapolisIndiana Sens. Mike Braun and Todd Young on Monday denied a report by journalist Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame that they hold President Donald Trump in contempt.Bernstein first levied the accusation that senators have disdain for the president in an appearance last week on CNN. He didn’t go into great detail about who felt that way.“Many if not most of these individuals from what I have been told were happy to see Donald Trump defeated in this election as long as the Senate could be controlled by the Republicans,” Bernstein said. “They’ve experienced Donald Trump and his dishonesty and his pathological lying, and they know what Donald Trump has done to undermine the confidence in our institutions in this country.”On Sunday, he named names, listing 21 Republican senators who he said had “extreme contempt” and “disdain” for Trump, saying he received the information in conversations with their colleagues, staff, lobbyists and White House aides. Braun and Young were among those he listed.The characterization of Braun in particular was somewhat surprising as the senator ran his 2018 campaign as a close ally of the president. He also was one of Trump’s staunchest defenders during the impeachment proceedings.There’s been little evidence Braun has changed his opinion. Just after the election, Braun incorrectly said Trump and President-elect Joe Biden essentially tied in the popular vote — if you take out California’s results. In fact, Biden leads by more than 6 million votes in the national popular vote and would still lead by about a million votes if all California voters were removed.“This is more false news from a CNN political analyst,” Braun said in a prepared statement, “as I was one of President Trump’s top defenders during impeachment and strongly support his legal efforts to ensure that every legal vote is counted.”Young’s office also denied the accusation in an unsigned prepared statement.“These unsourced rumors don’t deserve a response. It’s clear Sen. Young has a great working relationship with President Trump that has yielded several historic wins for Indiana including a Hoosier justice on the Supreme Court.”Although some prominent Republicans such as former President George W. Bush and Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who was the party’s 2012 nominee for president, have congratulated Biden on his victory, the majority of Republicans in the Senate and House have not publicly acknowledged it.Both of Indiana’s senators have issued statements that every legal vote should be counted. Asked Monday, neither the offices of Braun or Young had updates on those positions.As Trump’s legal team has begun to exhaust its options, more Senators have been calling for Trump to acknowledge the loss and begin the transition, including Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey.

Chris SikichIndianapolisIndiana Sens. Mike Braun and Todd Young on Monday denied a report by journalist Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame that they hold President Donald Trump in contempt.Bernstein first levied the accusation that senators have disdain for the president in an appearance last week on CNN. He didn’t go into great detail about who felt that way.“Many if not most of these individuals from what I have been told were happy to see Donald Trump defeated in this election as long as the Senate could be controlled by the Republicans,” Bernstein said. “They’ve experienced Donald Trump...

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