US President-elect Joe Biden continues to form his administration team, while some Republicans are trying to lobby for outgoing President Donald Trump in hopes of legally changing the election result.
Biden announced the appointment of 9 officials to hold prominent positions in his administration, who had previously worked with him or participated in his election campaign.
Chief among them is his campaign manager, Jane O'Malley Dillon, who will be the deputy chief of staff of the White House.
Biden also selected former President of the Black Bloc in Congress, Representative Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, to serve as the chief counselor and director of the White House Office of Public Affairs.
Biden has also appointed Mike Donilon, his chief of campaign strategies, his former chief of staff, Steve Richetti, and his campaign advisor, Dana Remus, as advisor to the president.
He also named Julie Rodridges as his deputy campaign manager as Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
The position of Chief of Staff for First Lady Jill Biden went to Julisa Pantaleon, who was a former ambassador to Uruguay, while Annie Tomassini holds the position of Operations Director in the Oval Office.
The transitional team for the president-elect assured - in a statement - that these appointments demonstrate commitment to building a diverse administration that resembles the United States and has ample experience in governance.
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and Biden said in his speech - which he delivered Monday from his hometown of Wilmington in Delaware - that the next stage requires working jointly between Democrats and Republicans in facing the challenges of the harsh economic repercussions of the Corona crisis.
He indicated that the delay in cooperation by the Trump administration will cause more negative repercussions and more deaths due to Corona.
Biden stressed that he understood that a number of Republican leaders would maintain their support for President Trump.
Pressures in favor of Trump
On the other hand, The Washington Post quoted Georgia State Secretary Brad Ravensburger as saying that he is under increasing pressure in recent days from his Republican colleagues, including Senator Lindsey Graham, in an attempt to reverse Trump's loss. In the state.
The newspaper reported that the state secretary expressed his indignation at the allegations of election fraud, and doubts about the "Dominion" vote-counting system.
Ravensburger said the atmosphere had become so controversial that he and his wife had received death threats in recent days.
Trump had said - in a tweet on Twitter - that the "Dominion" company ran fraudulent elections, and stated in another tweet that the "fake" recount that is taking place in Georgia does not mean anything, because they do not allow the signatures to be looked at and verified, as he put it.
The three attorneys representing the Trump campaign withdrew from their only remaining lawsuit against the election results in Pennsylvania, hours before their first session.
The campaign was able to find a local lawyer to represent it in the case in which it is demanding that Pennsylvania not formally certify the state's election results.
The campaign had revised the lawsuit filed, and dismissed the bulk of the charges, to limit it only to accusing the counties of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Allegheny, which have a democratic weight, of having allowed voters to amend false information in the ballot papers by mail, which the campaign considers discrimination against Republican voters.