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Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has finally broken with Donald Trump to admit that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won last month’s presidential election, a move sure to anger the outgoing commander-in-chief. The latest news from the transition team is that former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is Mr Biden’s pick for transportation secretary.
At a White House press briefing on Tuesday afternoon, Kayleigh McEnany had a different take, dismissively calling the Electoral College vote “one step” and saying that the president has ongoing legal cases regarding the election.
Ms McEnany also informed reporters that some White House staff would soon be receiving the Covid-19 vaccine, as the vice president, president-elect and vice-president elect also said they will take the vaccine publicly in the near future. The president is “open” to taking the vaccine, having already recovered from the virus.
Negotiations regarding coronavirus pandemic relief legislation are ongoing on Capitol Hill, with Senator McConnell saying that they will remain in session until a deal is struck as Bernie Sanders continues to demand stimulus checks for Americans.
Mr Trump continues to claim he is a victim of "mass voter fraud" despite no evidence existing and multiple legal defeats failing in court. On Tuesday, he retweeted a message calling for the imprisonment of Georgia’s GOP governor Brian Kemp and secretary of state Brad Raffensperger for refusing to help him overturn the state’s fair and democratic election result in his favour.
The president is also at odds with his fellow Republicans in the Peach State over its upcoming Senate run-offs, as his campaign continues to fire out fundraising messages that threaten to divert donations away from party candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue and towards his own war chest for mounting further spurious legal challenges to the outcome.
