The Michigan State Council has approved President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state's presidential elections against his rival, President Donald Trump, who continues to reject the results, while Biden has revealed new names in his next administration.

Al-Jazeera correspondent Muhammad al-Ahmad said that Michigan's endorsement of Biden’s victory is a painful blow to Trump, and the winning candidate grants 16 votes in the electoral college, which means that it has become impossible for the Trump campaign to reverse the outcome.

The second Republican official in the Michigan State Council had said that he would vote on the approval of the election results.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania rejected the Trump campaign's appeal regarding 8,000 ballot papers in Philadelphia.

The state is expected to ratify soon the election results that showed Biden winning.

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported earlier that all Arizona counties had ratified the results of the US presidential election, to be approved by the state secretary and later governor.

The Biden Team

President-elect Joe Biden revealed a group of the names of his team members, and said in a tweet to him, "The time has come to restore the American leadership, and I am confident in the team I chose to achieve this."

Biden announced some of the names before the specified date, which is today, Tuesday, in a move that reflects his efforts to calm the political clamor in Washington and restore the country to its leadership role in the international arena, according to the French Press Agency.

The president-elect said, "These individuals have experienced crises, their test as much as they are creative and creative."

On Monday, Biden chose veteran politician Anthony Blinken as Secretary of State, and decided to entrust the National Intelligence Department to Avril Haynes, 51, for the first time in the country's history. Former Secretary of State John Kerry appointed a special presidential envoy for climate affairs, pledging to adopt an approach based on experiences after Years of turmoil that overshadowed the era of outgoing President Donald Trump.

At the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Biden named for the first time the Spanish of origin Alejandro Mayorcas, 60, born in Havana, who will especially oversee immigration issues.

African American Linda Thomas Greenfield (68 years), who held the position of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, will be ambassador to the United Nations, and he has also named a close advisor, Jake Sullivan (43 years), to be his national security advisor.

Joe Biden intends to name the former head of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, as Secretary of the Treasury, according to US media quoting a source close to the US President-elect's team.

Biden chose experienced politicians, in contrast to the approach adopted by Trump, who often chose inexperienced figures in politics, which were later found to be unsuitable for the position and abruptly left the administration, according to the French Press Agency.

Democratic and Republican calls for delivery

In light of Trump's adherence to his skeptical stance on the integrity of the elections and not acknowledging Biden's victory, the head of the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff warned of the negative repercussions on his country's national security if the Federal Services, which oversees the transfer of power, did not recognize Biden's victory.

This came in a tweet in which Schiff sent a message to the head of the Federal Public Services Department, Emily Murphy, in which he told her that her refusal to acknowledge Biden's victory would lead to serious long-term harm to national security, and the battle against the Covid-19 epidemic, but more than that.

Schiff described Trump's claims as trivial, and said that she and the baseless plots would not succeed in revoking the people's mandate, and Schiff asked Murphy to do what her duty dictated to her immediately.

A growing number of officials within the Republican Party are calling for the president to accept defeat, or at least release funds that would allow for a smooth transition of power between the Biden team and the outgoing administration.

Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan told CNN that Trump is making the country look like a "banana republic", calling on Trump in a tweet to "stop playing golf and admit defeat."

Since the elections, Trump has practiced golf every weekend, knowing that he participated by video in the G20 summit with a speech in which he addressed trade, energy and taxes, according to the White House.

Republican Senator Rob Portman also said that there is no evidence of widespread fraud that would alter Biden's election victory, adding, "There is no more sacred constitutional process in our democracy than the transfer of power, and it is time to quickly resolve outstanding issues."

In the same context, Dominion spokesman Michael Steele denied President Trump's allegations of election fraud by the company that sells voting hardware and software in the United States.

Steele said in an interview with Fox News that the company has no political orientation, stressing that it is impossible to turn votes from one candidate in favor of another.