The president-elect's team did not receive the mandate to initiate the transfer of power

Biden begins the transition despite Trump's refusal to acknowledge the loss

Biden, his wife, Kamala Harris, and her husband during a win celebration in Wilmington.

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US President-elect Joe Biden began the first steps towards moving to the White House after 73 days, at a time when President Donald Trump is still refusing to acknowledge the defeat and trying to raise doubts about the election results, while a report by an American newspaper stated that the American body that grants the mandate for the operation The transition after the presidential election has not yet reached out to President-elect Joe Biden's team.

With congratulations pouring in from world leaders and supporters after a night of celebrations, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced that they would receive a joint briefing in Wilmington, Delaware, from their transition advisory team on "Covid-19".

The President-elect and Vice President also launched a transitional website BuildBackBetter.com and a Twitter account @ Transition46 regarding the transition.

Meanwhile, Trump played golf on a course near Washington, the same place he was last Saturday when Biden was announced winning enough of the electorate to become president.

Trump wrote on Twitter the day before yesterday: "Since when do the media announce who will be our next president?"

The "Washington Post" reported yesterday that the General Services Administration, which is responsible for federal government buildings, is refusing to send a letter granting Biden's team the correct move.

Outgoing Republican President Donald Trump has pledged to continue to pursue legal means to challenge the outcome of the US election that handed the White House over to its Democratic opponent.

The General Services Administration has the authority to grant the "clear winner" in the presidential election access to official buildings, access to e-mail messages, officials, and computer systems, as well as providing funds for the transition and space for the next team to operate.

The formation of the new Biden administration is expected to cost about $ 9.9 million.

In the event of a delay in the transfer of power, this will be the only time this has happened except in 2000, when the election results were decided by a ruling by the Supreme Court weeks after the elections.

An email from the General Services Administration indicated that it was awaiting a final result of the US elections.

On the other hand, Trump, who has not announced scheduled public meetings on his program, plans to file a series of lawsuits next week, according to his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who said that he has "a lot of evidence" of electoral fraud.

However, former Republican President George W. Bush stressed in a statement that "the result is clear," adding that he had called the "elected president" Biden and Harris to congratulate them.

"The American people can have confidence that these elections were basically fair," Bush said.

We must unite for the sake of our families and our neighbors, for the sake of our nation and its future. ”

Biden's transition website published four priorities that the president-elect will work on: COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equality and climate change.

The site said that "the team that is assembled will face these challenges from day one," referring to January 20, 2021, the day he assumed power as the 46th President of the United States.

Biden, who will turn 78 on November 20, is the oldest person to be elected to the White House, while Harris, 56, a senator from California, is the first woman, the first black person, and the first person from South Asia to be elected vice president.

The president-elect plans to bring the United States back to the Paris climate accord and abolish the immigration decree that bans citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.

Biden has pledged to choose a government that reflects the country's diversity, although he may struggle to get approval for more progressive appointments if Republicans retain control of the Senate.

The majority has not yet been decided in the Senate, as two races are still expected in Georgia in January.

Biden, who is the second Catholic to be elected president of the United States after John F. Kennedy, participated Sunday morning in a church service in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.

He also visited the grave of his son, Bo Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015, and the graves of his first wife and daughter, who died in a car accident in 1972. The Trump campaign spoke of legal objections to the results in several states, but no evidence has yet emerged of any violations that would Affect the results.

Giuliani's lawyer told a Fox News program that Trump's team will file a lawsuit in Pennsylvania on Monday against officials "for violating civil rights, holding unfair elections and violating state law."

"The first lawsuit will be in Pennsylvania," Giuliani said.

The second will be either Michigan or Georgia, ”he said, noting that the files would be prepared during the next week.

First lady Melania Trump also tweeted yesterday, saying, “The American people deserve fair elections.

Every vote must be counted legal, not illegal.

In an interview on "CNN" the day before yesterday, Biden's chief advisor, Simon Sanders, rejected the judicial appeals that Trump's team intends to present, describing them as "baseless legal strategies."

Biden won nearly 74.6 million votes compared to 70.4 million for Trump, and 279 votes in the electorate that determines who will be president in exchange for 214 for Trump.

The counting of votes has not yet ended in Arizona, where Biden is also advancing, and if he wins it means that he will get 11 additional votes in the Electoral College, as well as progressing in Georgia, which has 16 votes, and if he wins both, he will end up winning 306 votes, which is the same outcome. Which Trump won in 2016 when he ousted Hillary Clinton.

Only two Republican senators, Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski, congratulated Biden on the victory.

Representative James Cleburn of South Carolina said the Republican Party had a "responsibility" to help convince Trump that it was time to give up.

Romney stated that the president "will accept in the end the inevitable."

He added that he would prefer to see the world watch a more graceful departure, but this is not the nature of a man.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News on Sunday, addressing Trump: “Don't give up on anything, Mr. President.

Fight hard ».

He continued, "We will work with Biden if he wins, but Trump did not lose."

And in his victory speech last Saturday, Biden promised to unite the sharply divided nation.

Regarding Trump's supporters, he said, “These are not our enemies.

They are Americans ».

"Let us begin here today, the end of this era of demonization in America," he said.

Financial markets welcomed Biden's victory, as stocks recorded a rise in Tokyo and Hong Kong, and US futures rose on Wall Street, the day before yesterday.

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and other European countries extended their congratulations to Biden, along with Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, South Korea and Arab countries.

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