Across the street from the Trump National Golf Club in Potomac Falls, Va., Juli Briskman looked for signs the president might still be on the property Sunday. There was no security overlooking the black and gold entrance signs, and the ambulance that usually parks in the club’s parking lot while President Donald Trump visits was also missing. The commander in chief had departed, Briskman concluded, with the confidence of a person who has gathered with a group called “Protest Champions” outside this golf course at least 50 times during Trump’s presidency.

“We follow the White House pool Twitter account and we know when he leaves the golf course, we can just start rallying the troops,” she said.

Briskman, 53, is the most notorious troll of Trump’s Virginia golf club. In October 2017, she was photographed giving Trump’s motorcade the middle finger as she rode her bike. That picture led her to lose her job — but then she ran for office and helped flip the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors from red to blue. Now Briskman says that since Joe Biden was declared winner of the election, it’s time to stop antagonizing Trump.

“I don’t feel the need to come out and protest unless something radical happens,” she said. “Unless for some reason he refuses to concede, unless for some reason he refuses to leave office, but I don’t see that happening.”

Briskman spoke as a black Toyota SUV flying Trump flags rounded a left turn up the golf club driveway. More Trump-flagged cars followed. In the club’s parking lot, about two dozen people stood beside a stone fountain, gripping Trump flags and banners and shouting “Stop that steal!”

Elaina Sadler, 51, a school teacher from Front Royal, Va., wore a red hat and a white shirt emblazoned with the president’s name and explained that she agreed with his position that the vote count was fraudulent.

“All the sudden in the middle of the night there was all these dumps of votes that were found. Where?” she asked. “Where were these votes found?”

Both Republican and Democratic election officials in swing states have defended the integrity of their vote counting. Philadelphia’s Republican City Commissioner Al Schmidt told CBS’s 60 Minutes he received death threats, and said “counting votes cast on or before Election Day by eligible voters is not corruption. It is not cheating. It is democracy.”

To halt the spread of false claims, Facebook blocked a group called “Stop the Steal.” Fox News reported a Biden victory Saturday as well. Sadler said she feels betrayed.

“We’re being censored on Facebook. We’re being censored on Twitter,” she said. “Fox News has turned against everybody. They were our voice and they basically turned around and against President Trump and us.”

Some Republicans including former President George W. Bush and former Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock have pushed back against Trump’s allegations of fraud. Virginia’s current Republican leadership is not following suit. Asked if he believes the 2020 election is resolved, John March, communications director for the Republican Party of Virginia, said, “We’ll just have to wait and see. Each day brings new information about different things, and we’re just going to proceed accordingly as best we can.”

A spokesperson for House Republican Leader Del. Todd Gilbert of Shenandoah said he likely would have no comment “until we certify.”

Sadler and the other Trump supporters reached the golf club Sunday after they attended a rally in nearby Purcellville they estimated drew at least 300 people. Del. Dave LaRock (R-Loudoun) emceed it, and he said he could not rule out foul play on Election Day.

“Two days after the election you don’t have evidence but you may have testimonies of people, which will be developed and assembled and perhaps provide the basis for a compelling challenge,” LaRock said.

Mark Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, said he saw no path for Trump to succeed in challenging the election.

“I think most of the leadership of the Republican Party actually understands and respects the legitimate outcome of this election,” Rozell said.

However, he said, leaders might alienate the grassroots of the party if they act too soon to support the election results.

“The challenge to Republican leaders is to make sure that they can keep the Trump voter engaged and supporting the GOP long term beyond the Trump era,” Rozell said.

In Loudoun County, Briskman said she is grappling with a similar question as her Republican rivals: how to keep up energy without Trump as an organizing counter force.

“That is the ultimate question for Democrats nationwide, isn’t it?” she said. “But I think with the Black Lives Matter movement, criminal justice reform, the existential threat of climate change, I am hopeful that people will continue paying attention.”

Briskman said on the day Biden’s victory was announced, Trump was at his golf course, and she was planning to attend yet another protest. Instead, she said, it became a celebration. She drove a stack of Biden posters to the golf club for her fellow Protest Champions to use. Then, Briskman said, she drove a mile back to her home and got her bike. She pedaled past the golf course, holding up a Biden sign as she retraced the path where she once flipped Trump the bird.

“There were a lot of cheers,” she said. “It was awesome.”