Senate Republicans relent, say Biden should start getting access to intel

Small but noticeable cracks in President Trump’s typically unbreakable support from Republican lawmakers emerged Thursday amid a barrage of legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election.

Several Senate Republican leaders said that presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden should start receiving intelligence briefings.

Meanwhile, pro-Trump legal and political analysts said the president’s lawsuits likely won’t change the outcomes in states where vote projections put Mr. Biden over the top.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, said the election is “not over” but that it was time for...