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re: Biden Says TRUMP & Aides are Obstructing His Transition
TRUMP Officially Loses (Again) as Joe Biden Victory Approved by Electoral College
William Barr: US Attorney General to Leave Post by Christmas-Barr's term was due to end on 20 January, when Mr Trump leaves office.
Tensions between the two flared after Mr Barr said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in November's vote.
ALL of Donald Trump's baseless legal challenges have floundered in the courts as the sore loser continues to make inaccurate and damaging claims on Twitter
BBC News, 15 DEC 2020.
William Barr will step down on 23 December, President Trump said
Donald Trump has been officially dumped by America with Joe Biden confirmed as the new President of the United States.
Members of the TRUMP Proud Boys kick a member of Antifa on the ground during a protest on December 12, in Washington (Image: Getty Images)
Joe Biden, already the President-elect, has won the necessary Electoral College votes to make him the next President of the United States.
State by state, the US Electoral College convened today to formally confirm Democrat Biden's victory as the next President and effectively end President Donald Trump's long-shot attempt to overturn the election results.
Members of the Electoral College in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona - battleground states won by Biden but challenged unsuccessfully in court by Trump - all cast the states' electoral votes for the former vice president.
The Electoral College votes, traditionally a formality, have assumed exceptionally large significance this year because of Trump's baseless and wild claims of widespread fraud in November's poll.
Results for weeks have shown Biden won 306 Electoral College votes - exceeding the 270 needed to win - after four tumultuous years under the Republican Trump. Biden and running mate Kamala Harris are due to take office on January 20.
There was next to no chance that Monday's voting would negate Biden's victory and, with Trump's legal campaign to reverse the results floundering, the president's hopes of clinging to power will rest with a special meeting of the US Congress on January 6 where the odds against him are as good as insurmountable.
California, the most populous US state, formally pushed Biden over the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win overall.
Biden, 78, is due to make a speech at 1am our time - 8pm in America - calling on Americans to turn the page following the Electoral College vote.
The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago," he was expected to say, according to excerpts released by his transition team. "And we now know that nothing - not even a pandemic - or an abuse of power - can extinguish that flame."
Once in office, Biden faces the challenging task of fighting the coronavirus pandemic, reviving the US economy and rebuilding relations frayed with U.S. allies abroad by Trump's "America First" policies.
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