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Your support makes all the difference.As Donald Trump continues to refuse conceding the 2020 presidential race to Joe Biden, the president-elect was said to have spoken with Senate Republicans who have begun to admit he should at least receive intelligence briefings that have so far been denied.
On Friday afternoon most networks called Georgia for Mr Biden and North Carolina for Mr Trump bringing their respective electoral college vote totals to 306 to 232.
US federal and state cybersecurity officials, meanwhile, have delivered a direct rebuke to Donald Trump, who continues to allege irregularities and widespread fraud without evidence.
Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said the 3 November vote was “the most secure in history" in a report published Thursday, and added that Americans should trust the result. His agency had not find any evidence of ballots being lost, deleted or altered, he said.
From dead voters to mail-in ballots: A brief history of Donald Trump’s bogus claims of voter fraud
To understand Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat in the 2020 election, it’s necessary to go back a few years, writes Richard Hall. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s clear to see that it was always likely to end this way.
For his entire political life, Mr Trump has used bogus claims of vote rigging and election fraud to explain defeats or anticipated defeats. He has consistently undermined the integrity of American democracy in the service of protecting his ego.
A brief history of Donald Trump’s bogus claims of voter fraud
Donald Trump has consistently undermind the integrity of American democracy in the service of protecting his own ego, Richard Hall writes
Faint praise for Trump
Controversy has surrounded a Boris Johnson tweet congratulating Joe Biden on his US election victory after social media users spotted a hard-to-see "Trump" showing faintly in the background of the message.
Above the word Biden in the tweeted image the president’s name can be seen in smaller characters. The words “second term” can also just about be deciphered.
This led to online speculation that Number 10 had originally prepared a message to herald a Donald Trump win, only to replace it with one acknowledging the Democratic candidate's success after US media outlets called the race for the former vice president on Saturday afternoon.
It is understood that a technical error caused the situation.
Here is the tweet in question, with the words visible if you really zoom in:
Biden’s lead grows in Georgia
Bad news for the president in Georgia, where Joe Biden’s lead has grown by nearly 1,000 votes in the last 24 hours.
The president-elect now has a buffer of 12,428 votes, according to Edison Research’s tally, with 1 per cent of the state’s expected ballots waiting to be counted.
‘WE WILL WIN!’
It’s almost like Donald Trump is back in campaign mode. The president has been tweeting again, and, a week after election day, he is no less defiant.
Full story on latest Trump outburst
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Boris Johnson’s message congratulating Joe Biden on election victory contains hidden reference to Trump
After Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US presidential election on Saturday, Boris Johnson duly fulfilled his diplomatic duty with a two-line statement congratulating the Democrat candidate on his victory, writes Chris Baynes.
But his message – posted as a picture on Twitter – contained more than just well wishes for the former vice-president.
Boris Johnson’s election message to Joe Biden contains hidden reference to Trump
Text referencing incumbent president and ‘second term’ spotted faintly visible in statement congratulating Democrat challenger on win
Controversial Breonna Taylor attorney general joins Trump's election 'fraud' case
Daniel Cameron, the Kentucky state attorney whose investigation into Breonna Taylor’s death proved controversial, was among ten state attorneys to support a Trump campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleging election “fraud”, writes Gino Spocchia.
Submitting an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court on Monday, the Republican attorney and nine others alleged that Pennsylvania's high court had "overstepped its constitutional responsibility” by allowing mail ballots postmarked by election day to be counted within three days of 3 November.
Controversial Breonna Taylor attorney general joins Trump's election 'fraud' case
Republican attorney condemned over investigation into Breonna Taylor’s death, joins Trump lawsuit on false claims
Biden presidency could herald ‘new deal’ for US-Europe relations, Germany says
There could be a renewal of the relationship between Europe and the US under a Biden administration, Germany’s foreign minister says.
"Joe Biden's election victory means one thing in particular: new opportunities for the trans-Atlantic partnership," Heiko Maas told AP.
"We need a kind of new deal in the trans-Atlantic partnership, the basis of which would consist of responding to international challenges with international solutions and not with a policy of America First or Europe First."
He added: "Decisions were made by the administration or in the White House [under Donald Trump], and they were then put in front of us and we had to deal with them. That's not the cooperation we wished for and still wish for."
European leaders including Germany’s Angela Merkel had a sometimes fraught relationship with Mr Trump, who pushed them hard on trade and defence spending, claiming previous trans-Atlantic dealings had been “very unfair” to Washington.
Eric Trump tweets to Minnesota to ‘get out and vote’ seven days after the election
Donald Trump’s second oldest son, Eric, apparently can’t let the election go, tweeting out a rallying call to Minnesota to get out and vote — a week after the polls closed, writes Oliver O’Connell.
The tweet, likely supposed to be scheduled for last Tuesday, was deleted less than an hour after it was posted, but not before drawing ridicule online.
Eric Trump tweets to Minnesota to ‘get out and vote’ seven days after the election
‘When you schedule the tweet but it’s already after dad lost,' quipped one Twitter user
Irish PM speaks with Biden… Or does he?
Micheal Martin, the Irish premier, just got off the phone with Joe Biden, he has said.
Poor Boris Johnson is still waiting for his post-election chat.
However, moments after the tweet annoucing Mr Martin’s call was posted, it has been deleted…
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