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Author: Laura Sibold is on the live ticker
Tomorrow Tuesday I want Joe biden his first” Candidates for ministerial positions in your cabinet Imagine. Several US media already attribute the position of chancellor to Biden’s confidant, Antony Blinken.
Triumph let get in Georgia not easy: since he is less than 0.5 percentage point behind Biden, he wants a third Request a recount. Also in Pennsylvania his legal team appeals a sentence.
In an attempt to overturn the outcome of the presidential election, he and his Republican allies are already in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia Y Nevada With The lawsuits failed.
From the numbers for Georgia (Biden) and North Carolina (Trump) it is clear: Biden wins the election with 306 voters, Trump arrives at 232.
Democrats defend their majority in the House of Representatives. Which party has the majority in the senate it will be decided in a second ballot for both Georgia Senate seats in January.
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According to the media, Biden Blinken’s confidant will be chancellor
It is not official yet. But several US media, including CNN and the “New York Times”, believe they already know who the new US Secretary of State will be: Antony Blinken, Joe Biden’s foreign policy adviser during the election campaign.
The 58-year-old was most recently undersecretary of state and previously deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration. Blinken and Biden have known each other for almost 20 years: Blinken already worked for Biden when he was a senator and head of the foreign committee there.
The president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, wants to present his “first” candidates for ministerial positions in his cabinet on Tuesday. This was announced by Biden’s designated chief of staff, Ronald Klain, in an interview with the ABC television station.
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The most important of the weekend
In Pennsylvania, Donald Trump’s camp is appealing the decision of Judge Matthew Brann who refused to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania. Additionally, Trump is requesting a vote recount in Georgia.
Russian head of state Vladimir Putin has indirectly offered his cooperation to US President-designate Joe Biden for the first time.
Trump’s legal team distances itself from conservative attorney Sidney Powell. This after several turbulent days in which Powell made false statements about the voting process, spread conspiracy theories and vowed to blow up the outcome of the Georgia election with a demand of “biblical proportions.”
Read more about the US presidential elections here.
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SRF 4 News, 23.11.2020, 00:30
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