US media reported that Democratic candidate Joe Biden won in Arizona to widen the margin of victory over President Donald Trump, who insists on the existence of fraud, which was denied by security agencies, amid Democrats' accusations that the Trump administration is poisoning democracy and purging the Ministry of Defense.

Reuters quoted the Edison Research Center on Friday that Biden defeated Trump in Arizona, expanding the margin of victory by 11 electoral college votes after the November 3 elections.

Although Biden exceeded the required number of electoral college votes of 270 to win the presidency by winning 290 votes alongside Arizona, Trump still rejects the results and considers the election stolen.

Trump repeated his accusations of election fraud and, in a tweet, praised two Fox News media professionals for taking up the issue.

Trump said the Dominion Web program used by the states in the election stole tens of thousands of votes from him and awarded them to rival Joe Biden.

But Trump's attorney, in a case against Arizona election officials, said they were not seeking to claim that there was election theft, but rather dealing with specific irregularities that occurred during the vote that led to the cancellation of ballot papers for voters.

He added during the court session that will be held in Maricopa County in Arizona that the process of searching and obtaining evidence in the case led to the collection of some false and false evidence through the use of a website.

The Trump campaign seeks to manually count ballot papers it says polling stations rejected due to errors.

On the other hand, an appeals court in Pennsylvania ruled in favor of President Trump's election campaign and canceled a group of postal votes for people who were unable to prove their identity before the specified date.

The Pennsylvania secretary has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign to prevent the state's election results from being approved.

The court had rejected the state secretary's decision to extend the deadlines for submitting the missing documents, and local media described the ruling as a slight victory for Trump's campaign in its legal efforts to challenge the election results in Pennsylvania, but ruled out that the ruling would lead to any significant change.

Security agencies deny

Meanwhile, local and national authorities in charge of US election security, including the Electronic Security and Infrastructure Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Security, considered the current presidential elections to be the most secure in history.

And those authorities confirmed in a joint statement, that there is no evidence of lost votes or endangering the system in any way.

The statement indicated that the measures taken before the elections helped to enhance confidence in the voting mechanism that allows verification of any errors.

The statement indicated that the states have records that can be returned to verify each vote, if needed.

Resignations

Meanwhile, Assistant Director of Cybersecurity at the US Department of Homeland Security, Brian Ware, said he had resigned on Thursday.

Reuters said she was told by a White House official that Ware had been asked to resign.

According to informed sources, the head of the Electronic Security and Infrastructure Agency, Christopher Krebs, who oversaw the protection of the election process from piracy, told his aides that he expected to be fired.

Reuters said that Cripps had raised the ire of the White House, due to efforts to expose the disinformation through a website run by his agency, called "Fighting Rumors", "Romer Control."

White House officials asked to amend or remove some of the site's disclosures, including refuting allegations that Democrats are planning to rig the elections, but Cripps refused.

CNN also reported that the Deputy Assistant Director of the Office of Defense Minister Alexis Ross has resigned from his post.

The Department of Defense has witnessed resignations of senior officials since President Trump's decision to dismiss Secretary Mark Esper and appoint Christopher Miller as acting defense minister.

And American media described what is happening in the Pentagon as a purge carried out by the White House after Trump lost the elections.

The resignations included Acting Under Secretary for Political Affairs James Anderson, Undersecretary for Intelligence Joseph Kiernan and Secretary of the Secretary's Office Director Jane Stewart.

Transitional phase

Politico said the transition team of US President-elect Joe Biden had preliminary discussions with former officials who worked with former Defense Secretary James Mattis.

The site quoted well-informed sources that the talks are still in their infancy, without ruling out the possibility of offering Biden's team to former officials to serve in his administration.

The site also indicated that Biden's team is seeking help from former officials in the transition process, because it expects that the current leadership in the Pentagon will not cooperate with him.

In the meantime, Ron Klein, senior adviser to Joe Biden, said that the president-elect spoke to some Republican members of the Senate, according to what was reported by US media.

Biden's nominated Klein as White House chief of staff in his administration declined to reveal the names of Republican lawmakers who spoke with Biden, describing the talks as private.

In the context of the transition, CNN said that the leader of the Republican majority in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell, refused to answer a question about whether President-elect Joe Biden should be informed of the secret briefings presented to the White House.

A CNN reporter addressed Senator Chuck Grassley, the top Republican Senator in the House, representing Iowa, and he responded in the affirmative.

The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, told CNN that President-elect Joe Biden should have intelligence briefings.

And CNN indicated that Biden and his team of advisers have not yet received the daily White House briefings, which are classified as top-secret, on pressing national security issues.

Republican Senator Wyoming (Wyoming) John Barrasso said that under US law, both presidential candidates must share secret briefings.

And he added in an interview with Fox News, that this is what his fellow Republican from Oklahoma, James Lancford, also intended, who demanded that Joe Biden continue to receive those briefings that stopped with the end of the elections.

For her part, a White House spokeswoman said that President Donald Trump's administration follows the laws stipulated in any potential power transfer process.

Democrat criticism

On the other hand, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized what she described as President Trump and Republican lawmakers' ignoring the numbers of the worsening Corona virus and its repercussions in the country.

Pelosi told a news conference that what needs to be made clear is that Trump and the Republicans have not taken responsibility for the pandemic.

In turn, the head of the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, warned of the harm, who said that US President Trump was inflicting him on US foreign policy, because of his refusal to recognize the results of the presidential elections.

In an interview with MSNBC, Schiff said that the US president is destroying the basic pillar on which the United States has relied for decades, which is based on spreading democracy and supporting the peaceful transfer of power, as he put it.

In this context, former US President Barack Obama said that President Donald Trump's allegations regarding fraud in the presidential elections stem from the fact that he does not like losing and does not recognize them in the first place.

In an interview with "60 Minutes" on CBS, which will be broadcast in full next Sunday, Obama expressed his concern about Republican officials going along with Trump, stressing that fraud allegations undermine democracy in general.