Joe Biden won. Donald Trump lost. The election is over, and it’s time to let the transition to a new administration move forward.
Election 2020
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Maine Voices: We may need Susan Collins more than ever
We do not seem to be finding our way back from the extremes on our own. Now is the time for her to prove there’s more to being a moderate than walking an electoral tightrope.
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Trump relents, authorizing federal government to begin Biden transition
The president’s acceptance of the General Services Administration starting the transition amounted to a dramatic capitulation setting in motion a peaceful transfer of power.
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Biden signals sharp shift from Trump with Cabinet picks
The best known of the bunch is John Kerry, who made climate change one of his top priorities while serving as Obama’s secretary of state.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Nation & World, Politics
Michigan board certifies Biden win, dealing Trump another blow
Both the president and top Republican officials sought to discredit the vote process in Michigan’s Wayne County, home of Detroit, making sweeping and unsubstantiated claims about widespread fraud and citing errors in the vote tallies.
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Maine certifies Biden’s victory in the state’s election
Secretary of State Matt Dunlap says Maine has certified the results of the 2020 election.
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Transition allowed to begin as U.S. agency ascertains Biden won election
General Services Administration chief Emily Murphy finally made the determination Monday after Trump efforts to subvert the vote failed across battleground states.
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Republicans, business leaders push for action on Biden transition
Officials say President Trump’s refusal to concede ‘constitutes a serious threat’ to America’s democratic process.
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Trump campaign legal team distances itself from conservative firebrand attorney
Sidney Powell has made multiple incorrect statements about the voting process, unspooled unsupported and complex conspiracy theories and vowed to ‘blow up’ Georgia with a ‘biblical’ court filing.
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Trump’s legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none
President Trump’s campaign has filed plenty of lawsuits in six states as he tries to upend an election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.