{"id":11185,"date":"2020-11-24T04:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11185"},"modified":"2020-11-24T04:46:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T12:46:39","slug":"transition-to-bidens-administration-begins-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11185","title":{"rendered":"“Transition to Biden\u2019s Administration Begins”, The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michael D. Shear<\/span>, Maggie Haberman<\/span>, Nick Corasaniti<\/span> and Jim Rutenberg, November 24, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

A key official designated President-elect Joe Biden as the apparent winner after Michigan certified his victory there and President Trump lost another court decision in Pennsylvania.<\/em><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump\u2019s government on Monday authorized President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to begin a formal transition process after Michigan certified Mr. Biden as its winner, a strong sign that the president\u2019s last-ditch bid to overturn the results of the election was coming to an end.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump did not concede, and vowed to persist with efforts to change the vote, which have so far proved fruitless. But the president said on Twitter on Monday night that he accepted the decision by Emily W. Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, to allow a transition to proceed.<\/p>\n

In his tweet<\/a>, Mr. Trump said that he had told his officials to begin \u201cinitial protocols\u201d involving the handoff to Mr. Biden \u201cin the best interest of our country,\u201d even though he had spent weeks of trying to subvert a free and fair election<\/a> with false claims of fraud. Hours later, he tried to play down the significance of Ms. Murphy\u2019s action, tweeting <\/a>that it was simply \u201cpreliminarily work with the Dems\u201d that would not stop efforts to change the election results.<\/p>\n

Still, Ms. Murphy\u2019s designation of Mr. Biden as the apparent victor provides the incoming administration with federal funds and resources and clears the way for the president-elect\u2019s advisers to coordinate with Trump administration officials.<\/p>\n

The decision from Ms. Murphy came after several additional senior Republican lawmakers, as well as leading figures from business and world affairs, denounced the delay in allowing the peaceful transfer of power to begin, a holdup that Mr. Biden and his top aides said was threatening national security<\/a> and the ability of the incoming administration to effectively plan for combating the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And it followed a key court decision in Pennsylvania, where the state\u2019s Supreme Court on Monday ruled against the Trump campaign and the president\u2019s Republican allies, stating that roughly 8,000 ballots with signature or date irregularities must be counted.<\/p>\n

In Michigan, the statewide canvassing board, with two Republicans and two Democrats, voted 3 to 0 to approve the results, with one Republican abstaining. It officially delivered to Mr. Biden a key battleground that Mr. Trump had wrested away from Democrats four years ago, and rebuffed the president\u2019s legal and political efforts to overturn the results.<\/p>\n

By Monday evening, as Mr. Biden moved ahead with plans to fill out his cabinet<\/a>, broad sectors of the nation had delivered a blunt message to a defeated president: His campaign to stay in the White House and subvert the election, unrealistic from the start, was nearing the end.<\/p>\n

Ms. Murphy said she made her decision on Monday because of \u201crecent developments involving legal challenges and certifications of election results,\u201d most likely referring to the certification of votes by election officials in Michigan and a nearly unbroken string of court decisions that have rejected Mr. Trump\u2019s challenges in several states.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Yohannes Abraham, the executive director of Mr. Biden\u2019s transition, said that Ms. Murphy\u2019s decision was \u201ca needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n