Biden plans to assert control if he's declared president-elect - Axios
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Via: jbb • 4 years ago • 46 commentsBy: Mike Allen,Margaret Talev (Axios)
With leads in Nevada, Arizona, Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin Joe Biden expects to be declared the winner within days if not hours. The world watches!
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If news organizations declare Joe Biden the mathematical president-elect, he plans to address the nation as its new leader, even if President Trump continues to fight in court, advisers tell Axios.
Why it matters: Biden advisers learned the lesson of 2000, when Al Gore hung back while George W. Bush declared victory in that contested election, putting the Democrat on the defensive while Bush acted like the winner.
So if Biden is declared the winner, he'll begin forming his government and looking presidential — and won't yield to doubts Trump might try to sow.
- Biden's schedule for Tuesday includes a clue to this posture: He "will address the nation on Election Night in Wilmington, Delaware."
Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon told reporters Monday that even if all the votes aren't counted tonight, the campaign should have "a very good sense of where we're headed":
- "We're not really concerned about what Donald Trump says. ... We're going to use our data, our understanding of where this is headed, and make sure that the vice president is addressing the American people."
To show momentum, Biden may begin transition announcements quickly, starting with senior staff appointments.
- That way, core aides won't have to worry about their own jobs, but will immediately be able to get to work.
Biden plans to adopt what one confidant called "a healing tone," and begin talking about the path forward in battling the coronavirus.
- Look for Biden to embrace science, and talk up the role of Dr. Anthony Fauci, after Trump threatened Sunday to try to fire the trusted official.
From there, the transition would move with unprecedented speed:
- Biden had eight years in the White House, and he's surrounded by aides with decades of government experience.
- So the transition has made the most thorough agency-by-agency preparations in history, including offices no one's thinking about.
Biden has blueprints for staffing every single agency, and has extensive plans for executive orders, including ones to undo Trump actions.
- Look for Biden to send all-business signals: He won't pack the courts, and is unlikely to push for repeal of the Senate's filibuster rule and its 60-vote requirement anytime soon.
- Instead, look for Biden to push to pass as much as possible under the banner of budget reconciliation, which requires just a simple majority.
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Joe has the "Joementum!"
Preparations are underway for Biden's administration!
It can't be any worse than the current administration, right?
How many Senate seats did Democrats pick up? Did the Democrats pick up House seats?
Problems staying on topic???
thanks for not answering questions posed to another.
I can see how elections OTHER than that of President are important and have an effect on Presidencies, even if others can not
So can I, but they're not part of this discussion.
flag it or ignore it then.
I dont care which.
But I'm having so much fun watching you squirm to evade the question.
lol
then why are you complaining if its all fun and games for you?
that is illogical
Makes you squirm more.
Nice that you have a vivid imagination!
Keep on dreaming!
I see Joe took Virginia. He was behind when I fell asleep last night. PA is starting to disappoint me
He took WI also.
Awesome! Did they call it already?
I am not sure. I heard it on my local am news.
well MA, PA disappointed you on a regular basis, but thats' was the attraction
It wasn't always so bad
I could not believe the early vote counts.
Erie, Bucks, Delaware, Chester, aAllegheny all for Trump?
But the mail in ballots flipped Allegheny, Delaware and Bucks so far with much more to come.
looks like a Biden win.
Erie I can see...but Delaware, Chester and Bucks?? Those must be some serious red meat suburbs. Allegheny doesn't surprise me because Pittsburgh pretty much takes up all of Allegheny County
Trump is wishing he had not dissed John McCain!
McCain was very anti-Putin, so Trump was under orders to condemn him.
If Trump loses and it is Arizona decides it then Trump really shot himself in the foot there...
i don't think McCain has anything to do with it. It's all about demographics.
You give too much weight to what you think...
You get one vote the same as everyone else.
really?
wow, how absolutely fucking enlightening.
Until jan 20th 2021 , IF he wins he will simply be the President Elect with no authority or power and likely will be treated as such.
Whats he gonna do start taking those that wont listen to him out behind the gym after school?
Like every President Elect Biden is putting together a transition team as he should be. There is no reason for you to be so impertinent about it...
flashback to his old Corn Pop days!
I doubt that it will be an easy thing for him to do when damn near half the country refuses to do what is necessary to contain it, and anyway, it's too late - steps could have been taken in January, but then Mr. Mismanagement in Chief, as admitted by his own words, ignored and delayed. Even if an effective vaccine eventually is available, there is a huge percentage of Americans whom, it is predicted, will refuse to be vaccinated.
Actually, when I read the first sentence of what I quoted above, I thought it was going to continue with "the path forward in battling" the unbelievable polarization of opposing political loyalties and the great divide it has caused in the USA, enough to cause a civil war if it were geographically separated instead of neighbour vs. neighbour.
"Even if an effective vaccine eventually is available, there is a huge percentage of Americans whom, it is predicted, will refuse to be vaccinated."
I know of this one guy, works in Radiology, in the hospital where I work, who said he wouldn't be getting a vaccine when it became available. This is someone who I thought was a smart guy, I don't think that any longer.
To be fair, some may have a distrust of a vaccine that just came on the market. I know some people want to wait to get it to see if their neighbors are going to grow another eye or simply drop dead. However, where I work, I doubt I will have choice.
But ya know...I really could use a third eye. The two I have don't seem to be working very well these days.