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Biden lays the foundation for US foreign policy
4.30 am: While US President-designate Joe Biden is still denied access to government information in the transition phase, the Democrat is already laying the groundwork for his future foreign policy. Biden made separate phone calls with heads of government in Japan, South Korea and Australia, his transition office said. All parties expressed their determination to strengthen bilateral relations and address global issues such as the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.
The election results are still officially recognized. The step is necessary so that Biden’s team and current President Donald Trump’s administration can ensure a smooth transfer of official business.
Even a week after the election, Trump continues to insist that the vote was misled and the transition team was denied necessary funding and access to government officials. The tally of the votes has yet to be fully completed, but as of Saturday it has become clear that Biden can no longer be mathematically beaten. Biden’s inauguration is scheduled for January 20.
There is no evidence of voter fraud in the state of Georgia
02.25 am: In the ongoing counting of votes cast in the presidential elections in the US state of Georgia, there are so far no signs of inconsistencies. There are still no signs of electoral fraud, said the state Interior Minister Brad Raffensperger. “We believe the ballots were accurately counted.”
Raffensperger had ordered a recount of the machine evaluation by hand due to the narrow result. This should be finished before November 20.
President-elect Joe Biden is in Georgia with about 14,000 votes ahead of incumbent Donald Trump. The result in the state of 732,000 people was widely expected and does not change the big picture. With Biden already gaining more than 270 voters, Trump couldn’t catch up even if he won.
Biden wants to name a confident White House chief of staff
02.10 am: President-elect Joe Biden has decided who will be his future chief of staff in the White House. Biden’s team announced that the choice fell on his longtime confidant, Ronald Klain.
“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.
Biden and Klain already worked together in the White House when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president: Klain, now 59, was Biden’s Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2011. He also worked for the Democrat when he was in the United States Senate , and when Biden ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008.
In 2014, Obama appointed Klain as the coordinator of the US government’s response to the Ebola epidemic. During the crown pandemic, Klain stood out as a critic of President Donald Trump. A video explaining what a Biden government would have done differently during the pandemic and what it wants to do in the future drew a lot of attention. Biden has vowed to make fighting the coronavirus pandemic a priority.
How does a Trump fan deal with defeat?
02.00 am: The “Make America Great Again” project has been suspended for the time being. Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters have to accept that, too. Our reporter met with right-wing thought leader Gavin McInnes. Read more here.
Trump releases old video as alleged evidence of election fraud
1:40 am: Donald Trump posted an out of context video on Twitter, presenting it as alleged evidence of election fraud. The images show two men clearing a postal voting booth in California. Trump wrote about the video: “You see ballots here! Has it come to this in our country?”
The Reuters news agency reviewed the video late last week. It turned out that the video shows the collection of valid postal ballots that were published on or before Election Day.
The video had been streamed thousands of times on social media, even before Donald Trump picked it up. Some users took it as evidence of an alleged electoral fraud.
Los Angeles district officials told Reuters that although these ballots were collected the day after the election, voters cast them the same day or earlier. Therefore, they are valid and are processed and counted.
According to a spokesperson, the postal polls were closed and locked at 8 p.m. on Election Day on November 3. Ballots from all polls throughout the district were collected the next day.
Another crown case in the White House
1:35 am: Another White House employee in Washington tested positive for the corona virus. The New York Times and CNN reported that the virus was detected over the weekend in the case of political director Brian Jack. Jack had spent election night at the White House on Tuesday of last week to see the announced results.
According to the “New York Times”, the new coronavirus was also detected in another presidential adviser. The newspaper did not mention a name and it was also unclear if this adviser was in the White House on election night.
Previously, other close employees of US President Donald Trump, who had also spent election night at the White House, including Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Construction Minister Ben Carson, and Team Leader David Bossie legal, which had legal actions against in several states of the United States. alleged fraud is occurring in the presidential elections.
Security experts warn against disclosure of secret information
1.30 am: What does Donald Trump do when he is no longer president? Intelligence experts fear that you may divulge confidential information out of anger or revenge, if you remember. Read more here.
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