Las últimas noticias sobre las elecciones de USA, de la prensa inglesa
Nota:
Es lo más completo que he encontrado en Internet sobre el proceso, ya que la prensa de USA prefiere esperar el conteo final de los votos. Contiene fuentes de ambos lados del debate.
Chuck Grassley, the most senior Senate Republican, said he believed Joe Biden should receive classified briefings now that he is president-elect.
“I would think - especially on classified briefings - the answer is yes,” the Iowa Republican told CNN.
Presidents-elect usually have access to classified briefings during their transition, but Biden has not received them because Trump administration officials refuse to recognize his victory in the election.
Asked whether he believed Biden should have access to classified briefings, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy said today, “He’s not president right now. Don’t know if he’ll be president January 20, but whoever is will get the information.”
Fact-check: Biden will be the president on January 20 because he has won more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
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Donald Trump’s attacks on the credibility of Joe Biden’s election win through meritless lawsuits could undermine Americans’ trust in voting and could pose an immediate threat to the security and safety of the country, experts have warned.
Trump’s campaign has unleashed a stream of lawsuits in states key to Biden’s electoral college win, none of which are expected to affect the outcome of the election.
The US attorney general, William Barr, has authorized the Department of Justice to investigate voting irregularities, in a highly unorthodox move, and Republican state representatives in Pennsylvania are calling for an audit of the election, though they have no evidence of fraud.
University of Southern California (USC) law professor Franita Tolson said she was concerned that these actions, which would not change the trajectory of the election, were meant to call into question the legitimacy of the result.
“What does that do to our democracy as we play out this process? What does it do to the belief in the system when 70 million people think the election was stolen,” Tolson said, referring to the popular vote total for Trump. “To me that’s the danger of this narrative, that’s the danger of this litigation.”
Donald Trump does not plan to publicly acknowledge his loss in the presidential election until after the Georgia recount ends on November 20, according to CNN’s Dana Bash.
As of now, Joe Biden leads in Georgia by about 14,000 votes, so it seems virtually impossible for Trump to win the state.
More importantly, even if Biden were to lose Georgia (which is highly unlikely), the president-elect would still have more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
Mike DeWine, the Republican governor of Ohio, acknowledged that Joe Biden had won the presidential election while speaking to CNN this morning.
DeWine emphasized Donald Trump and his team had “every right” to pursue legal challenges in battleground states, but the governor accepted the reality of the results.
“I think that we need to consider the former vice-president as the president-elect,” DeWine said. “Joe Biden is the president-elect.”
This should not be noteworthy five days after Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election by every major news outlet.
However, many Republicans -- including the president -- have refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory and have instead continued to push baseless claims of election fraud.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted the results of the presidential election proved Joe Biden had a “mandate” to pursue his agenda.
“What Joe Biden got in this election was a mandate,” Pelosi said during a press conference on Capitol Hill.
Republicans have contradicted that assertion, pointing to their gains in the House. Although more than a dozen races remain uncalled, Democrats are projected to have the slimmest House majority since World War II.
But Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer insisted Biden’s victory signaled the American people had embraced his proposals on responding to the coronavirus pandemic, including passing another massive relief bill.
“The Donald Trump approach was repudiated,” Schumer said. “The Joe Biden approach was embraced, and that’s why we think there’s a better chance to get a bill in the lame duck.”
Coronavirus relief negotiations between congressional Democrats and the White House remain stalled, so it is very unclear whether a relief bill can pass before Biden’s inauguration.
Criticizing her Republican colleagues, Pelosi said, “It’s like the house is burning down, and they refuse to throw water on it.”
Pelosi to Republicans: 'Stop the circus' and start working on coronavirus relief
House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer held a press conference on Capitol Hill, calling on Republican lawmakers to accept the results of the presidential election.
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Speaker Pelosi says Republicans are "engaged in an absurd circus right now, refusing to accept reality." pic.twitter.com/wdrj4xjdSQ
The Democratic speaker accused Republicans of being “engaged in an absurd circus right now refusing to accept reality.”
Pelosi emphasized the need to pass another coronavirus relief bill, saying, “Stop the circus and get to work on what really matters to the American people.”
Schumer put it even more plainly, telling reporters, “The election is over. It wasn’t close. President Trump lost.” The Senate leader added, “Senate Republicans, stop denying reality ... and start focusing on Covid.”
Schumer also argued Republicans were defending the president’s refusal to concede for “no other reason but fear of Donald Trump.”
Across the street from the British embassy, with its red telephone box and Winston Churchill statue, in Washington DC is the residence of the US-vice president. It has its own basketball court, on which Mike Pence reportedly installed a logo from the 1986 film Hoosiers starring Gene Hackman about small town Indiana sports.
Pence, a former governor of Indiana, and his wife, Karen, will be packing their bags and moving out of the residence in January to make way for America’s first female vice-president, Senator Kamala Harris of California, and her husband Doug Emhoff.
Said to have nurtured ambitions for the presidency since he was 16, Pence must now decide what to do with the rest of his life. Among the 61-year-old’s options: a return to his roots in conservative talk radio as a way to remain relevant in his party.
“I think he would want to stay involved in Republican politics and probably in a more conventional way than the president,” said Michael D’Antonio, co-author of The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence. “So he could be a broadcaster, and there’ll be lots of opportunity for that, but he would be nicer than Trump.
“When he was on the radio in Indiana, he called himself ‘Rush Limbaugh on decaf’. There is a lot of potential in that identity for him.”
Even though Donald Trump has not yet conceded that he lost the presidential election, a number of world leaders have already congratulated Joe Biden on his victory.
The Biden campaign said that the president-elect spoke to the leaders of Australia, Japan, and South Korea last night.
Shortly after he was declared the winner of the presidential race, Biden spoke to the leaders of Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany and France.
Here are some reactions from global leaders after speaking with the US president-elect:
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US reports 709,000 new unemployment claims last week
Another 709,000 Americans submitted new claims for unemployment benefits last week, marking a decrease of about 48,000 claims from a week earlier.
The figure marks the lowest number of new claims since March, signaling the US job market may be slowly healing.
But economists warn that the number of new unemployment claims remains alarmingly high eight months into the coronavirus pandemic.
There are also concerns that the US economy will decline in the coming weeks, as coronavirus infections surge and Americans become more cautious about leaving their homes.
The US set another single-day record for new infections yesterday, confirming 144,133 cases. Another 1,893 Americans died of coronavirus yesterday as well.
Fauci says lockdown should not be necessary because of vaccines: 'Help is really on the way'
Dr Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said he did not believe a national lockdown would be necessary because of the development of coronavirus vaccines.
Pfizer announced earlier this week that its vaccine was 90% effective, and Fauci said he expected a vaccine to be widely available to the American public by April or May.
When asked by ABC News’ Robin Roberts whether the country was headed toward a national lockdown, Fauci said he would like to “stay away from that” because “there is no appetite for locking down.”
Fauci added, “I believe that we can do it without a lockdown. I really do.”
Robins also asked Fauci, who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, what he would say to those suffering “Covid fatigue.”
Fauci replied, “Help is really on the way. ... The cavalry is coming here. Vaccines are going to have a major positive impact.”
Fauci’s comments come as the country sets new records in coronavirus infections. According to Johns Hopkins University, the US confirmed 144,133 new cases yesterday, breaking the single-day record set the day before.
Kayleigh McEnany, the outgoing White House press secretary, raised many eyebrows this morning, when she tried to distance herself from her own job during a Fox News interview.
Although McEnany works for the White House, she has recently been speaking to the media in her “personal capacity” as an adviser to Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.
When Fox News asked her whether Joe Biden would soon receive access to intelligence briefings, McEnany replied, “That would be a question more for the White House.”
That answer is rather remarkable, considering McEnany is the top spokesperson for the White House. It should also be noted that McEnany has previously deflected questions at White House press briefings by referring them to the Trump campaign.
Political reporters immediately expressed outrage that McEnany, who makes a government salary of $183,000 a year, was refusing to speak for the White House, when that is the top requirement of her job.
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The White House press secretary, whose salary is paid by American taxpayers, referring questions to the White House as she conducts an interview with Fox News from the Trump campaign office. https://t.co/2fuy0nZB2C
Wait, what?! White House Press Sec, who recieves a six figure tax-payer salary for that job, deferred a question about intelligence briefings for @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris to the White House (?!) during an appearance on FOX News where she appeared as a "Trump campaign advisor."
Biden pushes forward with picking team as Trump refuses to concede
Greetings from Washington, live blog readers.
It has been nine days since election day and five days since Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential race, but Donald Trump has still not conceded that he lost.
However, the president’s refusal to accept reality is not stopping the president-elect from moving forward with his transition to the White House.
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Ron Klain’s deep, varied experience and capacity to work with people all across the political spectrum is precisely what I need in a White House chief of staff as we confront this moment of crisis and bring our country together again. https://t.co/s4XlAgMrxf
Biden announced last night that he had chosen Ron Klain, a longtime adviser who served as the “Ebola tsar” under Barack Obama, as his chief of staff.
More staff announcements are expected in the days and weeks ahead, as Biden prepares for his inauguration on 20 January.
But Biden’s determination to treat this like a normal presidential transition is clashing with Trump’s strategy to cast doubt upon the integrity of the election by peddling baseless claims of fraud.
Trump’s advisers are privately acknowledging his lawsuits in battleground states are unlikely to go anywhere and that Trump will have to leave office in January.
But until the president accepts that reality, his refusal to concede will continue to be an international sideshow as the country tries to move forward.
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Great visual on Venezuela per capita GDP if you have not already seen: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/visualizing-the-rise-and-dramatic-collapse-of-democratic-socialism-in-venezuela/
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