Tag: Joe Biden
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Biden to start naming cabinet Tuesday as Trump resists
US President-elect Joe Biden will name on Tuesday the first picks to be part of his administration, his chief of staff said, even as Donald Trump continues to evoke unsubstantiated fraud and to insist he defeated the Democrat. That announcement underscored Biden’s preparations to assume the presidency in January despite Trump’s moves — efforts increasingly…
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Court dismisses Trump lawsuit in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump’s claims of widespread electoral fraud there, dealing a new blow to the Republican’s bid to overturn his loss in the US presidential election. The decision — announced in a scathing judgment which excoriated the Trump team’s legal strategy — paves the way for Pennsylvania to certify…
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‘One election’ won’t reverse EU-US shift: EU chief
An EU Chief, Von der Leyen has offered warm congratulations to US president-elect Jose Biden and his vice-president-elect, Kamala Harris. Von der Leyen emphasised that the Western alliance built on US-European cooperation still endured, “based on shared values and history”. “It is time for a new trans-Atlantic agenda,” she told EU ambassadors in a videolink…
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Despite Trump’s refusal to concede defeat, Biden commences transition
US President-elect Joe Biden took the first steps Sunday towards moving into the White House in 73 days, as Donald Trump again refused to admit defeat and tried to sow doubt about the election results. With congratulations pouring in from world leaders and supporters nursing hangovers after a night of celebrations, Biden and Vice President-elect…
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US Election: Netanyahu salutes Biden, calls him great friend
Israeli Prime Minister and close Donald Trump ally Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory early Sunday, calling the United States president-elect “a great friend of Israel”. “I look forward to working with both of you to further strengthen the special alliance between the US and Israel,” Netanyahu wrote on Twitter, referring to…
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US election: Biden floats transition website
Votes are still being counted across the United States but Democrat Joe Biden has launched a transition website “so that the Biden-Harris Administration can hit the ground running on Day One”. On the website, buildbackbetter.com, is the short statement, “The American people will determine who will serve as the next President of the United States,…
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US Election: Trump vows to stop vote counting at Supreme Court
Donald Trump claimed the election was a ‘fraud on the American people’ and that he was going to the Supreme Court to stop all vote counting immediately in a White House statement at 2.30am. He effectively made his own declaration of saying: ‘Frankly we did win this election.’ He set the stage for a titanic…
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US Election Day begins as voters decide Trump’s fate
The United States started voting Tuesday in an election amounting to a referendum on Donald Trump’s uniquely brash and bruising presidency, which Democratic opponent and frontrunner Joe Biden urged Americans to end to restore “our democracy.” The country is more divided and angry than at any time since the Vietnam War era of the 1970s…