The Republican candidate in this
year’s United States Presidential Election, Donald Trump, has released poll
results showing he should not concede to his democrat challenger, Joe Biden.
The incumbent president made this
known in a tweet today. It read, “Should President Trump concede to Biden? Poll
Results: No: 190,593 (98.9%); Yes: 2,181 (1.1%) Total Votes: 192,774. For the
good of our country, we must prevail!”
Trump, who reportedly lost his re-election bid to 78-year-old
Biden and former vice-president after the latter’s victory in the electoral
college votes, has refused to concede while alleging fraud in the election.
Biden has so far described Trump’s refusal to concede as “an embarrassment”.
But while Trump continues to contest the outcome of the
election in court, the General Services Administration on Monday acknowledged
Biden as the apparent winner of the election, following weeks of inaction.
Emily Murphy, who heads the GSA, the government agency meant
to ease Biden’s transition into the White House, wrote to the president-elect.
“Because of recent developments involving legal challenges and certifications
of election results, I have determined that you may access the post-election
resources and services described in Section 3 of the Act upon request,” Murphy
said in a letter to Biden, citing the Presidential Transition Act of 1963.
Trump also called on his agencies to cooperate with the GSA
chief. “I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with
regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same,” he tweeted
but noted that court cases against election results continue.
The designation triggers a formal transition process, giving
Biden and his team access to current agency officials, briefing books and other
government resources, including some $6 million in funding.
The announcement is a “needed step” to “getting the pandemic
under control and our economy back on track,” Yohannes Abraham, the executive
director of the Biden-Harris transition, said in an emailed statement.
“In the days ahead, transition officials will begin meeting
with federal officials to discuss the pandemic response, have a full accounting
of our national security interests, and gain complete understanding of the
Trump administration’s efforts to hollow out government agencies.”
For weeks, the Biden
transition team has worked informally to establish a new administration,
including assembling a coronavirus task force and consulting with public health
officials outside of the federal government, mimicking the approach former Vice
President Dick Cheney took during the disputed 2000 election.
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