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Edited by The Associated Press
Here’s what’s happening on Monday in the 2020 election:
TODAY’S MAIN STORIES:
TRANSITION LIMBO: The team helping Joe Biden prepare for the White House and a non-partisan institution are calling on President Donald Trump to cooperate with an orderly transition of power, despite his false claims that the election was stolen. These requests have put a little-known agency called the General Services Administration in the spotlight, which is tasked with formally initiating the transition from one administration to another based on all available facts.
TRUMP REFERENDUM: The 2020 presidential election officially registered the highest turnout in over 50 years. The turnout in last week’s presidential election eclipsed 61.6 percent of voting-age Americans who voted in the 2008 election. It has the highest turnout since 1968 – 62 percent as of Sunday. As new votes are still being counted slowly, that rate will continue to rise.
BIDEN’S NEW FIGHT: As his transition for presidency begins, Biden is moving from a bitter campaign battle to a more pressing fight against the coronavirus pandemic, which has hit the world’s most powerful nation harder than any other. The United States is now averaging more than 100,000 new infections a day and the death toll is rising. Biden announced on Monday members of a task force of public health experts to help his administration prepare for the virus.
ECONOMY EATEN: Biden will inherit a ruined American economy, which has never fully recovered from the coronavirus and may suffer again as new infections are on the rise. In some ways it will be a pickup from when Biden became vice president deep in the financial crisis in 2008-2009, with perhaps fewer tools and less political leverage to press a program to stop the virus and fuel economic growth.
QUOTE: “We cannot and will not take plaintiff’s word – in an election where every vote matters, we will not deprive potentially eligible voters of voting rights based solely on allegations of a private foundation.” – Federal Judge John Jones, who said he doubts claims that there were dead people on the Pennsylvania electoral roll.
ICYMI:
Trump’s election night party adds to virus control
A worried Asia wonders: What will Joe Biden do?
Biden awaits the global wish list of hopes and demands
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