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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.
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Prime minister Boris Johnson has spoken by phone with Joe Biden to congratulate him on his victory in the US presidential election, Andrew Woodcock writes.
Boris Johnson and Joe Biden discuss climate change and democracy in first phone call
Prime minister Boris Johnson has spoken by phone with Joe Biden to congratulate him on his victory in the US presidential election.
More: Biden team considers suing over delay in recognition by federal agency — and hold-up of funds and intelligence
Gino Spocchia writes: Joe Biden’s presidential transition team could take legal action against a federal government agency's failure to recognise his election win last week.
A Biden transition official argued on Monday that the General Services Administration’s (GSA) failure to officially recognise the Democrat’s election win was now delaying preperations on the changeover of power in the White House.
The GSA, an independent agency of the United States government, must formally recognises election winners to allows a president-elect to start work on the transition.
Biden team considers suing over delay in recognition by federal agency
Government agency still considering Democrat’s election win amid legal threats from Donald Trump
ICYMI: Trump to reportedly take his false claims of voter fraud on the road with campaign-like rallies
President Donald Trump is taking his temper tantrum on the road.
After losing in his re-election bid to President-elect Joe Biden, new reports indicate Mr Trump will be holding campaign-like rallies in states across the country while battling the electoral process in the courts.
The president will display alleged obituaries of deceased voters and claim ballots were cast in their names during the 2020 US elections, Axios reported on Sunday.
Trump to reportedly take his false claims of voter fraud on the road
The president will deliver his message of misinformation to voters across the country while battling in the courts, according to a new report
Fox News cuts away from McEnany press conference: ‘I can’t in good countenance continue showing this’
Justin Vallejo writes: Fox News cut away from a Trump campaign press conference outlining its allegations of so-called voting fraud in the presidential election.
Host Neil Cavuto cut into White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s opening statement saying the election was far from over.
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“Whoa, whoa, whoa. I just think we have to be very clear: she's charging the other side as welcoming fraud and illegal voting, unless she has more details to back that up, I can't in good countenance continue to show you this," Cavuto said.
Joe Biden delivers remarks: watch live
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Joe Biden: ‘We will not abandon you … that is a promise’
The president-elect is delivering remarks on health care as the Supreme Court listens to arguments surrounding Obamacare.
"Let's be absolutely clear about what's at stake. The consequences of the Trump administration's argument are not academic or an abstraction. For many Americans, they're a matter of life and death in a literal sense."
Biden says Trump ‘can’t stop’ the transition
The president-elect says he doesn’t need the funding for the transition process and adds: “We don’t see anything slowing this down, quite frankly.”
Biden: Republican Party is ‘mildly intimidated by the sitting president’
‘It’s an embarrassment, quite frankly’: Biden unloads on Trump’s refusal to concede
The president-elect railed against his predecessor when asked by a reporter about the false claims of voter fraud and refusal to concede, saying in a press conference: “I just think it’s an embarrassment, quite frankly."
He added: “It will not help the president’s legacy.”
Former FBI director fired by Trump says probe of his campaign not meant ‘to stage a coup’
John Bennett writes: A former FBI director fired by the Trump administration denied again on Tuesday the Justice Department launched an investigation that included Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign “to stage a coup.”
“Let me be very clear. We didn’t open a case because we liked one candidate or didn’t like the other one. We didn’t open a case because we intended to stage a coup or overthrow the government,” Andrew McCabe told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“We didn’t open a case because we thought it might be interesting or because we wanted to drag the FBI into a heated political contest,” he added. “We opened a case to find out how the Russians might be undermining our elections. We opened a case because it was our obligation — our duty — to do so. We did our job.”
Former FBI director fired by Trump says probe of his campaign not meant ‘to stage a coup’
'We had many reasons to think the president … might pose a threat to national security,” Mr McCabe tells GOP-run panel
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