Trump virtually concedes defeat, agrees to Biden transition


By Arul Louis

New York, Nov 24 (IANS): President Donald Trump has virtually conceded defeat to Joe Biden agreeing to begin the transition to the Democrat's administration while also making claims that he will be the ultimate winner of the November 3 election.

In a Monday evening tweet, Trump said that he was asking General Services Administration head Emily Murphy to cooperate with Biden to facilitate his transition to become the 46th President of the United States.

The announcement came 16 tension-filled days after the media had declared Biden winner of the election, while Trump has refused to concede citing the vote-counting that is still going on.

In another wrinkle in the process, Murphy, however, denied that she made the decision to cooperate at the behest of Trump.

In her letter offering to work with Biden, she wrote, "I came to my decision independently, based on the law and available facts. I was never directly or indirectly pressured by any Executive Branch official -- including those who work at the White House or GSA -- with regard to the substance or timing of my decision. To be clear, I did not receive any direction to delay my determination."

Biden transition's Executive Director Yohannes Abraham welcomed the announcement calling it "a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track."

Trump made the announcement that he will cooperate with the transition hours after Biden announced several key foreign affairs and national security designations, including Antony Blinked as secretary of state.

"In the best interest of our country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same," Trump tweeted.

But he did not formally concede defeat keeping a flickering flame of hope alive for his base, adding to tweet, "Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail!"

Biden had warned that "more people will get infected and die" from Covid-19 if the transition process is delayed and his incoming administration's ability to counter the pandemic from Day One is hindered.

It assumes importance because he will be taking over in the middle of the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine.

Murphy had refused to provide funds and facilities for the Biden Transition because the results have not been officially announced and Trump had not conceded defeat.

In the US system, the winner of a presidential election is entitled to get access to intelligence briefing, government officials and funds to run the transition office till the formal swearing-in on January 20.

Biden's election will be final on December 14 when the electoral college votes.

Biden has 306 votes among the electors elected by the states and Trump has 232, the media announced on November 7 based on their projections of the voting.

Biden also leads in popular votes with 79.8 million votes, or 51 percent of the total, while Trump got 73.8 million votes or 47.2 percent, although it is the distribution of votes among the states that determine the composition of the electoral college and the final outcome.

Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 despite failing to get the majority of the votes.

Since the Federal Election Commission does not have national jurisdiction over the elections and only the states, and, even, counties run them, the results dribble in.

Georgia, where Biden won by only 0.25 votes declared the results officially on Friday and Michigan today.

Pennsylvania, which was to have made the official announcement or certification on Monday did not appear to be able to do it because some counties were not ready.

Underneath his bravado, Trump has accepted Biden's victory even as he might continue legal challenges to the election, some of which he has already lost.

  

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  • Valerian DSouza, Udupi / Mumbai

    Tue, Nov 24 2020

    Once conceding defeat and then again denying and then agreeing for transition. Chaotic! Still they have followers!
    What's ultimately needs to be done, should be done in time, in an harmonious manner to command respect. There should be clear difference between administrators of law and abusers!

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  • John, Mangalore

    Tue, Nov 24 2020

    God's grace on US election? Everyone will have one last chance to vote for God ? Following Divine message says so...

    November 19, 2020

    Feast of Our Lady of Good Tidings

    My beloved children, this is God the Father of Heaven and Earth. I come to tell you that I warned America that if abortion did not stop, I would stop America. I was very happy with the vote for Trump. He did win by a landslide—two-thirds for Trump & one-third for Biden. Now, you must pray that the Democrats will be taken all the way down, that the evil of the election will come out, and the last of the swamp will be brought out. The election ended just like the bad and good angels that came from Heaven; one-third of the angels fell into hell and two-thirds of the angels stayed in Heaven. The count from Heaven was the same for this election. There are one third of the people on Earth that will go to hell if they do not change their lives and vote for life. Anyone that voted for the Democrats and Biden are in danger of going to hell if they do not change their lives.

    The Warning is coming any day now and everyone will have one last chance to vote for God or to sell their soul to satan. Then, there will be six weeks that they will have to change for God and go to Heaven or keep following satan and end up in hell for all eternity. The choice is yours by your free will. America, abortion must be voted down now by your President Trump and the House and Senate or natural disasters will destroy your whole country and the Democrat party. The Democrats, at the top levels, are led by satan himself, just like the Masons.

    America, stop abortion now or I will stop the world and cast all the demons and evil people into hell for all eternity. Love, Papa God. So be it. Amen.

    Ref:

    https://maryrefugeofsouls.com

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