Who to support Joe Biden in the future Democratic administration?
The first answers will be given on Tuesday, November 24, promised a relative of the elected president.
Joe Biden is determined to continue building his team, two months away from his inauguration, despite Donald Trump's attempts to reverse the outcome of the November 3 presidential election.
"You will see the first appointments of the government of the president-elect Tuesday of this week," said on the ABC channel Ron Klain, the future chief of staff of Joe Biden, without specifying the portfolios concerned or the names.
"We'll have to wait until the president-elect does it himself on Tuesday," before the Thanksgiving long weekend.
Joe Biden has already appointed several close advisers, who will surround him in the White House, but suspense persists over his government, which should "represent America", diverse and feminized.
According to the New York Times and the Bloomberg news agency, Joe Biden intends to appoint diplomat Antony Blinken as secretary of state and is expected to announce the appointment on Tuesday.
Tony Blinken will be appointed Secretary of State Tuesday according to Bloomberg.
Francophone (he studied in Paris), #Biden loyalist for almost 20 years, I have ITV for my bio Biden. Here he was at the 1st Biden campaign rally in Philly.
His priorities: return to the Paris Agreement, deal with Iran.
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- Sonia Dridi (@Sonia_Dridi) November 23, 2020
Donald Trump and his lawyers are continuing their multiple legal actions, denouncing massive electoral fraud without having provided concrete evidence for the moment.
The President's campaign team announced on Sunday that it was no longer working with lawyer Sidney Powell, who was controversial after claiming massive frauds took place in the November 3 election, without providing any details. evidence to journalists, at a press conference last Thursday.
"Sidney Powell practices law individually. She is not a member of the Trump legal team," Donald Trump's personal lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said in a statement.
"She is also not a personal lawyer for the president," he added.
Nationally, Joe Biden won nearly 80 million votes in the ballot, against just under 74 million for the Republican billionaire.
But the presidency is played out through a system of electors allocated in each state.
One by one, the key states that have tipped over to the Democrat side must certify their results.
Donald Trump on Sunday called on the Republican Party to "fight" not to let the Democrats "destroy the evidence" of the alleged fraud.
Serial setback for Donald Trump
The day before, he had suffered another setback in Pennsylvania, one of the key states in this election, where a judge dismissed the fraud allegations.
Judge Matthew Brann said Donald Trump's team presented “baseless legal arguments and hypothetical charges” in his complaint about postal voting in Pennsylvania.
The certification of the results must take place there on Monday.
This court ruling led Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey, to recognize Joe Biden's victory.
Donald Trump's lawyers have "exhausted all legal options to challenge the results" in this state, he said.
"Harmful" attitude
The Republicans also asked the authorities of Michigan, announced as won by Joe Biden with 155,000 votes in advance, to postpone the certification of results scheduled for Monday for 14 days, denouncing irregularities.
Republicans want a full audit of Wayne County, Michigan's largest.
The Michigan Election Officials Commission, which includes two Democrats and two Republicans, is due to meet on Monday to certify the state's result.
According to press reports, one of the Republican members of the committee is considering voting against the certification.
The attitude of the Republicans is "harmful", estimated Sunday Ron Klain, "but that will not change the result of what will happen on January 20 at noon, Joe Biden will become the next president of the United States".
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Within the Republican Party, a growing number of officials are calling on the president to concede defeat, or at least release funds to allow for an orderly transition between Joe Biden's team and the outgoing administration.
Joe Biden must in particular receive the daily security reports, first of all on the coronavirus pandemic, which Donald Trump has refused so far.
The United States, a "Banana Republic"?
For former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a member of Donald Trump's 2016 transition team, the behavior of the president's lawyers is "a national disgrace".
Republican Gov. of Maryland Larry Hogan even commented on CNN that the United States is starting to look like "a Banana Republic."
He later asked the president on Twitter to "stop playing golf and admit" defeat.
If you had done your job, America's governors wouldn't have been forced to fend for themselves to find tests in the middle of a pandemic, as we successfully did in Maryland.
Stop golfing and concede.
https://t.co/tCXO8etxge
- Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) November 22, 2020
Saturday and Sunday morning, Donald Trump made brief addresses at the virtual G20 summit, before going to his golf course in Virginia, near Washington.
North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer, for his part, defended the president's insistence on ensuring the fairness of the ballot, while adding on NBC that it was "high time to start the transition".
Liz Cheney, number 3 of the party in the House of Representatives, had estimated Saturday that, for lack of evidence of fraud, Donald Trump should "respect the sanctity of the electoral process".
With AFP
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