-General Services Admin formally begins transition.
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The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN.
The letter is the first step the administration has taken to acknowledge President Donald Trump’s defeat, more than two weeks after Biden was declared the winner in the election.
Murphy said she had not been pressured by the White House to delay the formal transition and did not make a decision “out of fear or favoritism.”
“Please know that I came to my decision independently, based on the law and available facts,” Murphy wrote. “I was never directly or indirectly pressured by any Executive Branch official – including those who work at the White House or GSA – with regard to the substance or timing of my decision. To be clear, I did not receive any direction to delay my determination.”
The letter signals that Murphy has formally signed off on Biden’s victory, a normally perfunctory process known as ascertainment. The move will allow the transition to officially begin, permitting current administration agency officials to coordinate with the incoming Biden team, and providing millions in government funding for the transition.
The move toward ascertainment comes after Michigan formally certified its election results on Monday and Georgia certified its razor-thin presidential results on Friday. Pennsylvania is nearing certification of its election results, too.
It’s the latest sign that Trump’s conspiracy-laden legal bid, led by Rudy Giuliani, to circumvent the outcome of the election is nearing an end. The Trump campaign’s lawsuits to delay certification of the election have been dismissed in multiple states, as his legal team has failed to provide any evidence of widespread voter fraud.
But until now, Murphy had refused to move forward with the ascertainment process, despite Biden’s clear victory, locking the President-elect’s team out of speaking with federal agencies. Murphy, a Trump political appointee, has faced intense scrutiny and political pressure from Democrats and, in recent days, Republicans calling for the start of a smooth transition. In a statement Monday, Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, said that “there is no evidence as of now of any widespread fraud or irregularities that would change the result in any state” and called on the transition process to begin.
In the letter, Murphy suggested that the ascertainment rules were vague and should be updated.
“GSA does not dictate the outcome of legal disputes and recounts, nor does it determine whether such proceedings are reasonable or justified,” she wrote. “These are issues that the Constitution, federal laws, and state laws leave to the election certification process and decisions by courts of competent jurisdiction. I do not think that an agency charged with improving federal procurement and property management should place itself above the constitutionally-based election process. I strongly urge Congress to consider amendments to the Act.”
Trump tweeted moments after the letter was reported, thanking Murphy for her work and affirming the decision to start the transition.
“I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country. She has been harassed, threatened, and abused – and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, or employees of GSA. Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail!” Trump tweeted. “Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, 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.”
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld 8,329 ballots in Philadelphia County that the[COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)] Trump campaign had sought to disqualify over minor errors like a voter not including their address or the date on the ballot’s outer envelope, affirming a lower court ruling that had also upheld the ballots.
The court also upheld 2,349 ballots in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, which were challenged by a GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate because they were signed but not dated.
[SIZE=6]While the errors do “[constitute] technical violations of the Election Code,” the court wrote in their opinion, they “do not warrant the wholesale disenfranchisement of thousands of Pennsylvania voters.”[/SIZE]
The Allegheny County ballots had previously been rejected by a lower court, but will now be counted thanks to Monday’s ruling.
Biden leads by more than 80,000 votes in the state.
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In a “letter of ascertainment” to Biden, Murphy wrote that she was now making available resources for his campaign to begin the transition process.
“As you know, the GSA Administrator does not pick or certify the winner of a presidential election. Instead, the GSA Administrator’s role under the Act is extremely narrow: to make resources and services available in connection with a presidential transition,” Murphy wrote.
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“As stated, 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. The actual winner of the presidential election will be determined by the electoral process detailed in the Constitution.”
Murphy said that she had reached the decision to release the funds and information independently, contradicting the president’s tweet that he had directed her to make the decision. :D:D:D:D
“Please know that I came to my decision independently, based on the law and available facts. I was never directly or indirectly pressured by any Executive Branch official—including those who work at the White House or GSA—with regard to the substance or timing of my decision. To be clear, I did not receive any direction to delay my determination,” she wrote.
“Contrary to media reports and insinuations, my decision was not made out of fear or favoritism. Instead, I strongly believe that the statute requires that the GSA Administrator ascertain, not impose, the apparent president-elect.”
The Biden-Harris transition team confirmed that Murphy had officially ascertained Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris as the “apparent winners of the election.”
Trump lovers poleni sana, end of the road for you guys.
MAGA followers still waiting for votes to be invalidated in Georgia, Wisconsin, PA mpaka they want to ask for a recount in California. Trump fcked up an American tradition of transition and we may forgive but shall never forget; as they say we shall revisit . Let’s turn America around and try salvage the little reputation we have left.
Huyo mama naskia amenyimwa food akapanicki
Schupid @uwesmake and other retards.
Endeni mkaishi mar largo na mkubwa.
Trump hawezi host African urchins
Wawezi kosa kazi…
trump ni playboy…
Atawa nyorosha…
There is CORONA. I also cant take a vaccine for that isnt there!
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Why? It is not the end of the road. When elections are stolen in Kenya, there are certain communities that will on occasion be heard cheering at others about end of road. Soon they realise it no one’s road is ending, just a bunch of retards rigged in that make life sad for everyone in every conceivable way. Similarly rigging in Biden who is slightly retarded will kill police, open borders for immigration, overtax businesses, cause exodus. Communist policies attract free loaders. Already some cities are experiencing the third world transition, business exodus, joblessness, beggars, shit and pee on the kerbs, chaos and violence. The police are demotivated, watch what will happen to them. I can predict a worsening situation especially for liberal communist states, but it will affectf all including republicans.
All I can say is hogwash…
Ati Pennsylvania ilikuwa Tharaka Nithi
Trumpet akanyage nyumbani roho safi
Guka Trump is buying time so as to quietly leave the country.
The concession tweet will be released akiwa somewhere in Switzerland.
The rot you have described is happening under trump’s rule since you used the word ‘already’. You cannot project the future, worse things had been predicted about Obama presidency. Biden isn’t the first democrat president, you self-righteous Trump groupies make it sound as if it’s the end of the world and Trump is the Messiah.
Finish that stupid kayole chokoraa