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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
As Joe Biden rallies his staff, Donald Trump scolds the media on Twitter. No one wants to report that Republican election watchers in Pennsylvania and Michigan stayed away from their work, complains the current president. Hundreds of thousands of votes were illegally counted, otherwise he would have won a huge leap. Oh good. Perhaps Trump will not read about the alleged large-scale election fraud in the news simply because there is no evidence to back it up.
+++ 02:20 Biden appoints Ronald Klain chief of staff, for the second time +++
President-elect Joe Biden has decided who will be his future chief of staff in the White House. The choice fell on his longtime confidant, Ronald Klain, Biden’s team explained. “His deep and diverse experience and his ability to work with people from across the political spectrum is exactly what I need from a White House chief of staff as we face this time of crisis and bring the country back together,” said Biden. Klain has a lot of experience: The 59-year-old was already Vice President Biden’s Chief of Staff between 2009 and 2011. During the crown pandemic, Klain stood out as a critic of President Donald Trump. A video in the spring explaining what a Biden administration would have done differently in the pandemic and what it wants to do in the future attracted a lot of attention.
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+++ 01:33 Georgia: Republican Interior Minister sees no signs of electoral fraud +++
A manual recount of the votes is supposed to show large-scale electoral fraud in the state of Georgia, or so the Trump camp hopes. The state’s Interior Minister Brad Raffensperger has to disappoint the skeptics: So far, there has been no evidence of large-scale electoral fraud, the Republican told CNN. Therefore, he considers it highly unlikely that more than 10,000 votes were assigned incorrectly: “We believe that the ballots were accurately recorded by the counting machines.” Due to the tight outcome of the Georgia elections, Raffensperger had ordered a recount by hand. Joe Biden is in Georgia with currently about 14,000 votes ahead of incumbent Donald Trump. The count must be completed by November 20.
+++ 00:29 Pentagon instead of ambassador to Germany: Trump loyalist Macgregor gets a new job +++
In reality, Douglas Macgregor was supposed to be the new US ambassador to Germany, as Donald Trump wanted. But now it’s different: The former army officer has a new job at the Pentagon. Macgregor will become a senior adviser to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, the Defense Department confirmed. Trump had nominated Macgregor for the post of ambassador to Berlin in late July; now he is apparently needed more urgently in the Ministry of Defense. His appointment was preceded by the removal of former Defense Minister Mark Esper, which Trump announced Monday on Twitter. As a result, other Pentagon executives left their offices on Tuesday. They were full of people who, like Macgregor, are considered loyal to Trump.
+++ 23:43 The Facebook election freeze is extended +++
Political-themed ads haven’t been possible on Facebook for a few weeks, and that won’t change anytime soon. Advertisers should be prepared for the fact that the advertising ban could last up to a month, the world’s largest online network announced. Before the election, Facebook had banned political ads from the site to avoid “confusion or abuse,” as it was called at the time. Among other things, aggressive ad campaigns should be kept off the platform during the hottest phase of the election campaign. Democrats were quick to criticize the extension of the advertising suspension because it would hamper the campaign before the Senate runoff elections in Georgia. There will be two senatorial seats in early January, which will decide by majority in the House of Congress.
+++ 11:01 PM infected on election night? Another case of corona in the White House +++
The White House has another corona case: Political Director Brian Jack tested positive over the weekend, various US media reported. Jack was at the White House on Tuesday of last week to see the announcement of the election results. According to the “New York Times”, the virus was also detected in another presidential adviser, but the newspaper did not mention a name. On the other hand, the infections of Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Construction Minister Ben Carson and David Bossie, the head of the legal team, are already known. They had all spent election night in the White House.
+++ 10:30 pm Trump advisor: what will max give +++
The main US broadcaster NBC reports on its news page that Trump’s advisers believe he will no longer admit defeat. Anonymous sources close to the president are cited. One of these people said, “He’s going to say something like, ‘We can’t trust the results. But I’m not going to do anything about it.’ Someone else said that Trump’s statement would go something like, “I acknowledge the results, but we will never know how accurate they were.” The point has not yet been reached.
+++ 21:56 US Congress Plans New Sanctions for Nord Stream 2 +++
A good example that with Trump all the problems in German-American relations will not disappear is the Nord Stream 2 oil pipeline. The US has already paralyzed its construction with sanctions and new punitive measures are already being planned. As reported by “Bloomberg”, negotiators in the Senate and House of Representatives have included them in a bill for the defense budget. Consequently, insurers and technical certifiers should be targeted. Mind you, this has yet to be officially decided, but in the end it should just be a formality. After all, Nord Stream 2 is one of the few topics that Republicans and Democrats agree on.
+++ 21:23 Micro still open: Fox News host reacts to Trump’s friendly guest +++
In the Trump universe, it has caused irritation that Fox News has also proclaimed Biden the winner of the election. Now in the Trump camp it is said that the election is not decided until all the votes have been counted, which is not bad, but the media has a great experience in counting the likely winner and, by the way, Trump was that too method in 2016 good enough. Now, lawyer Cleta Jones, a friend of Trump, gave a telephone interview with Fox News and spread that same opinion. Moderator Sandra Smith reacted in disbelief and asked her colleague, “What’s going on here? We have declared the end of the race.” Too bad the mic was still open.
+++ 20:48 indigenous people could become Biden’s interior minister +++
Deb Haaland was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2018; she and Sharice Davids are the first Native Americans to do so. Now Haaland is in talks to become interior minister under Biden, as the “Huffington Post” reports. Dozens of tribal leaders want to campaign for this. As Home Secretary, Haaland would oversee federally owned lands, which especially in the central United States occupy large areas. If a “Native American” got this post, it would also have a symbolism.
Read what happened on the US election ticker here.
