The outgoing US President Donald Trump received massive Republican support in his attempt to nullify the election results, which he still insists were fraudulent, and while President-elect Joe Biden continued to appoint more members in his administration, the Republican and Democratic parties are preparing for a decisive battle in Georgia for two seats in Senate.
Yesterday, 106 Republicans in the US House of Representatives announced their support for the lawsuit brought by the state of Texas to the Supreme Court.
The lawsuit, joined by Trump, demands that the votes of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia not be counted.
The four states targeted in the lawsuit responded, and the Supreme Court demanded that the lawsuit be dismissed.
Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania - all of which are swing states that Biden won - have accused Texas of seeking to cancel the results with bogus allegations.
Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy has announced that he will not join his colleagues on that issue.
Roy said in a tweet on Twitter, that the case itself represents a serious violation of federalism, and it also sets a precedent for one state asking federal courts to monitor voting procedures in other states.
Trump spoke yesterday about winning hundreds of thousands of votes more than Biden in the four states, and pledged to intervene in the lawsuit without disclosing the nature of this intervention.
While the outgoing president hopes to reverse the election results with the new lawsuit, legal experts said the lawsuit has few chances of success.
Despite the ratification of the results by all states, and the loss of the lawsuits that he had previously filed, the losing Republican candidate - Trump - continued to challenge the election results, describing them as fraudulent.
According to the announced results, Biden won 306 of the electoral college votes compared to 232 votes for Trump, and in the popular vote the president-elect leads 7 million votes (81 million against 74 million).
Appointments and the battle of Georgia
Meanwhile, Biden announced yesterday new appointments in his administration that include Susan Rice (56 years), whom he had chosen to fill the position of chair of the Domestic Policy Council in the White House.
The Biden team wrote in a statement that the former national security advisor to Barack Obama "is one of the most seasoned and experienced government officials in our country."
Rice - who is of African descent - previously held the position of US ambassador to the United Nations, and her name was among the most prominent candidates for the position of Secretary of State, but the president-elect nominated him Anthony Blinken.
Biden also selected for the Agriculture Department, Tom Vilsack, who also held the position throughout Obama's presidency between 2008 and 2016.
Marcia Fudge has also been appointed as Housing Secretary, Denise McDonough as Veterans Minister, and Catherine Tay, an attorney specializing in free trade and China, as the United States Trade Representative.
These new appointments come after the president-elect appointed retired General Lloyd Austin as defense minister in his prospective government, the first time an African American has been appointed to this position.
On the other hand, Biden announced yesterday that he will campaign Monday in Georgia to support the two Democratic candidates in a decisive run-off to elect two members of the state in the Senate on January 5.
The Democrats must wrest the two Georgia seats from the Republicans in order to achieve a majority in the Senate, which is now controlled by Republicans, because with equal seats (50 seats each), incoming Vice President Kamala Harris will be able to vote and decide according to the constitution.
For its part, Trump's campaign called on Republicans to take seriously the by-elections in Georgia, referring to Biden's upcoming participation in the Democratic campaign in the state.