More states certify election results
USA TODAY’S protection of the 2020 election continues this week as states certify their vote counts after President-elect Joe Biden’s victory within the hard-fought presidential race. President Donald Trump has but to concede the race as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris put together to take workplace in January.
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Biden can now obtain President’s Daily Brief; transition staff speaking to each federal company
The Trump administration has cleared the way in which for President-elect Joe Biden to start receiving the identical every day intelligence briefings that President Donald Trump receives.
“Following the statutory direction of the Presidential Transition Act, ODNI will provide requested support to the transition team,” in line with a ODNI spokesperson. “This afternoon the White House approved ODNI to move forward with providing the PDB as part of the support to the transition.”
The briefing is a top-secret doc that features nationwide safety and intelligence assessments.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Biden stated he has not began intelligence briefings however would quickly.
This comes a day after Emily Murphy, the pinnacle of the General Services Administration, stated she’ll permit Biden to start his transition to the White House. The GSA holds the keys to transition funds and instruments, however Murphy had delayed issuing an official dedication recognizing Biden’s win, because the Trump marketing campaign filed a flurry of lawsuits difficult the results.
Additionally, a day after the GSA ascertainment, the Biden transition staff is now speaking with all federal businesses.
– Deidre Shesgreen and Savannah Behrmann
Trump pardons ‘fortunate’ Thanksgiving turkey
This time there have been no jokes about recounts and truthful elections.
President Donald Trump emerged from the White House briefly on Tuesday to partake in an annual holiday tradition – the pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey – however handed up a possibility to make use of the ritual as a commentary on the presidential election earlier this month.
Trump, with first woman Melania Trump at his facet, used the Rose Garden ceremony to grant a full pardon to a fortunate gobbler named Corn and to have a good time the hovering inventory market and the “strength, loyalty and faith” of Americans amid the lethal coronavirus pandemic.
“What we’ve endured and been able to endure, with the vaccines now coming out one after another – it’s an incredible thing that happened,” he stated in a uncommon public look since dropping the presidential election to Joe Biden earlier this month.
Trump’s severe tone was a marked a distinction to his earlier turkey pardonings, which he used to make mild of his political conditions.
– Michael Collins
Arizona Republican Gov. Ducey: ‘Joe Biden did win Arizona’
Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey acknowledged Tuesday that Democrat Joe Biden carried Arizona, almost three weeks after the Associated Press known as the state for Biden and almost two weeks after a number of different main information shops did.
During a Tuesday morning look on Phoenix station KTAR’s “The Mike Broomhead Show,” Ducey stated he anticipated the state to certify Biden’s win and all different election results Monday.
“I’ve said several times: Arizona is a good government state,” Ducey stated. “I trust our election system. There’s integrity in our election system. Joe Biden did win Arizona.”
Ducey beforehand had declined to acknowledge the president-elect’s Arizona victory. Less than every week in the past he stated he would settle for the results solely in spite of everything associated lawsuits had been resolved.
– Maria Polletta (Arizona Republic)
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey:‘Joe Biden did win Arizona’
Nevada Supreme Court certifies Joe Biden’s election victory
The Nevada Supreme Court made President-elect Joe Biden’s election win official Tuesday, changing into the most recent battleground state previously day to certify election results that each one however finish President Donald Trump’s long-shot path to overturn the election.
The unanimous certification by the seven nonpartisan justices sends results to Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak that can ship six electoral votes from Nevada to Biden.
It comes after Pennsylvania licensed Biden’s win there earlier Tuesday and at some point after Michigan licensed Biden because the winner.
Biden gained Nevada by 33,596 votes, 50.1% to 47.7%.
Nevada was one in every of a handful of states that Democrat Hillary Clinton gained in 2016 that the Trump marketing campaign focused with assets to attempt to flip.
The Supreme Court’s motion obtained added scrutiny as Trump ranges baseless claims of voter fraud to falsely declare the election was stolen from him.
Nevada was one in every of 9 states that routinely mailed absentee ballots to all 1.82 million lively registered voters, a transfer that garnered unsuccessful authorized challenges from the Trump marketing campaign. The Trump marketing campaign later tried to cease the counting of the document 1.4 million votes forged within the election as a part of a variety of unsuccessful lawsuits concentrating on Nevada and different states the president misplaced.
– Joey Garrison and Associated Press
Trump touts market, avoids election briefly look
President Donald Trump touted the document 30,000-point milestone on the Dow Jones Industrial Average as a “sacred number” throughout a short and sudden go to within the White House briefing room Tuesday.
The president took no questions throughout remarks that lasted beneath two minutes and by no means talked about the election. He was joined by Vice President Mike Pence.
“We’ve never broken 30,000,” the president stated. “That’s a sacred number – 30,000. Nobody thought they’d ever see it.”
Trump walked off the rostrum with out responding to questions on whether or not he would concede the Nov. 3 election. His look got here a day after his administration started the formal transition course of to usher President-elect Joe Biden in workplace.
The Dow traded above 30,000 factors for the primary time, Trump stated, due to progress on the COVID-19 vaccine. Others pointed to the General Services Administration formally starting the transition to Biden, an indication of a peaceable switch of energy. Other analysts stated buyers had been inspired by Biden’s collection of Janet Yellen, the previous Federal Reserve chair, as his Treasury Department secretary.
– John Fritze
Asian American lawmakers push for Asian Americans in Biden’s Cabinet
Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus known as on President-elect Joe Biden Tuesday to incorporate Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in his Cabinet and administration as his transition staff rolls out its first Cabinet picks.
Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., the caucus chairwoman, advised reporters the Asian American group had “made a difference” in key battlegrounds across the country, and it was “worrisome that for the first time in 20 years, there may not be a single Asian American nominated to the Cabinet.”
“We cannot ensure every communities having their needs met if they do not have a seat at the table,” she stated.
She talked about a number of potential Asian American contenders for Cabinet positions together with:
- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., for Defense secretary
- Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy for secretary of Health and Human Services
- California Labor Secretary Julie Su for secretary of Labor
- Chief commerce counsel of the House Ways and Means Committee Katherine Tai for United States Trade Representative
- Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang for Commerce secretary
The Caucus despatched a letter to Biden on Nov. 21 urging him to incorporate Asian Americans in his Cabinet, however had not but obtained a response, Chu stated. Biden’s transition staff didn’t reply to a request for remark.
– Nicholas Wu
Pennsylvania certifies election results discovering Joe Biden the winner
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday introduced his state certified its election results, making certain that its 20 Electoral College votes might be awarded to President-elect Joe Biden.
“Today, @PAStateDept certified the results of the November 3 election in Pennsylvania for president and vice president of the United States,” Wolf tweeted Tuesday morning. “As required by federal law, I’ve signed the Certificate of Ascertainment for the slate of electors for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
The certification happened as President Donald Trump and his authorized staff proceed to problem the results by alleging widespread fraud in Philadelphia with out proof. Biden is main Trump by greater than 81,000 votes.
A Pennsylvania federal court docket on Saturday denied Trump’s request to dam certification of the state’s election results to provide his attorneys time to search out proof to help their claims of a fraudulent election system and improper poll counting.
Trump in PA:In scathing ruling, judge dismisses Trump campaign’s effort to overturn election results in Pennsylvania
In a scathing ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brann criticized the Trump marketing campaign’s lack of proof to help its argument to doubtlessly disenfranchise each voter within the commonwealth who forged a poll – almost 7 million.
That prompted Sen. Pat Toomey, R-PA., a Trump supporter, to acknowledge Biden because the winner of the Keystone State within the Nov. 3 election.
“With today’s decision by Judge Matthew Brann, a longtime conservative Republican whom I know to be a fair and unbiased jurist, to dismiss the Trump campaign’s lawsuit, President Trump has exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania,” Toomey stated in an announcement Saturday.
– Ledyard King and Kevin McCoy
Most Republicans would vote for Trump in 2024, ballot says
Most Republican voters would vote for President Donald Trump in a 2024, in line with a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Asked who they might vote for if the 2024 Republican main was held at the moment, 53% of Republican and Republican-leaning independents stated they might for Trump. Voters additionally stated they might vote for Vice President Mike Pence, who got here in second with 12%, and the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr. obtained 8% of help.
None of the opposite choices, which included Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, obtained greater than 4% of help from Republican voters.
The ballot launched Tuesday comes a day after Emily Murphy, the pinnacle of the General Services Administration, stated she would give President-elect Joe Biden entry to the transition funds and assets after withholding them from Biden and his staff.
Trump tweeted his help for Murphy after her determination on Monday, additionally saying that “I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and have told my team to do the same.”
The ballot of almost 2,000 voters occurred Nov. 21-23 with a margin of error of two proportion factors.
– Sarah Elbeshbishi
Trump to participate in turkey pardon as GSA begins Biden transition
The White House turkey pardon on Tuesday is more likely to garner consideration as all eyes might be on President Donald Trump after the administrator of the General Services Administration stated she would permit President-elect Joe Biden to start his official transition.
More:Trump administration clears the way for President-elect Biden’s transition to officially begin
The official turkey pardoning ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT would be the president’s first public occasion in days. Trump has been principally out of the general public eye since dropping the election earlier this month.
The GSA letter marked a proper recognition by the Trump administration that Biden gained the Nov. 3 election, despite the fact that the president has refused to concede and continues to make baseless allegations of voter fraud.
In a pair of tweets, Trump took credit score for Murphy’s determination, saying he greenlit the transition as a result of it was within the “best interest of our country.” But he additionally stated he would proceed contesting the results.
Trump has used earlier turkey pardons to make mild of his present political scenario. Last 12 months, within the midst of the House’s impeachment inquiry, Trump cracked jokes about efforts to question him. In 2018, he joked abut Democrats issuing the turkey subpoenas.
Trump will concern a presidential pardon to the turkeys, Corn and Cob, at a ceremony within the Rose Garden, as a part of the annual vacation custom that was made official in 1989 beneath former President George H.W. Bush.
Biden’s transition web site is now authorities area
As one of many first indicators of the GSA’s ascertainment of the election, president-elect Biden’s transition web site now exists beneath a authorities top-level area.
The Biden staff now has buildbackbetter.gov, which redirects to the prevailing transition web site.
–Savannah Behrmann
