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Trump's Transition Sabotage Threatens Vaccine Rollout
Women And People Of Color Make
President Donald Trump's refusal to coordi- nate with President-elect Joe Biden on the critical COVID-19 vaccine is bringing a staggering possibility into clearer view: that an outgoing US commander in chief is ac- tively working to sabotage his successor.
Trump's denial of his election defeat, his lies about nonexistent mass coordinated voter fraud and his strangling of the rituals of transferring power between administra- tions are not just democracy- damaging aberrations.
Given the current national emergency, they threaten to cause practical fallout that could damage Biden's in- coming White House not just in a political sense. There are increasing concerns that Trump's obstruction will slow and complicate the deliv- ery of the vaccine that brings
aged them not to.
The victims of this neglect
will be thousands of Ameri- cans whom health experts ex- pect to die or get sick in the absence of a coordinated na- tional response to the winter spike in infections and work- ers caught up in new restric- tions imposed on business by local leaders trying to get the virus under control -- as well as the millions of schoolchild- ren who are already falling be- hind while classrooms remain shuttered.
"More people may die if we don't coordinate," Biden warned bluntly on Monday, stepping up his pressure for Trump to recognize his de- feat in the election and im- pending exit from office.
But while he has the moral standing of an election win, he has no power to implement his plans until Inauguration Day on January 20.
Up A Substantial Portion Of
Biden’s Transition Team
PRES. TRUMP
the tantalizing prospect of a return to normal life amid stunning news from trials showing doses are effective in stopping more than 90% of coronavirus infections.
The distribution operation will be a massively complex and historic public vaccina- tion effort targeting hundreds of millions of Americans -- many millions of whom have resisted following basic safety protocols like wearing masks because Trump has encour-
One of President-elect Joe Biden’s early campaign promises was to build an ad- ministration that looks like America, and the incoming ad- ministration looks to be setting the tone early as women and people of color make up a large portion of the Biden transi- tion team.
According to CNN, of the 500 people selected for roles on the transition team, people of color make up 46 percent. Overall, women make up the majority of the team at 52 per- cent. The makeup of the team’s senior staff members consists of 41 percent people of color and 53 percent women. This commitment to diversity also extends to the transition team’s advisory boards.
For example, President- elect Biden’s COVID-19 ad- visory board is made of 13 members; nine of which are people of color and five being women. “For months, the Biden-Harris transition has laid the groundwork for a Biden-Harris administra- tion, and at the core of that work is an unrelenting com- mitment to diversity,” Ted Kaufman, co-chair of the Biden-Harris transition, told
CHARMION KINDER
CNN.
“As we continue working full-speed ahead to Inaugura- tion, our diverse group of lead- ers and staff are reflective of America — upholding Presi- dent-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris’ be- lief that through diverse voices we can develop and implement a policy vision to tackle our na- tion’s toughest challenges.”
Charmion Kinder who will help lead or guide transition efforts at the Commerce De- partment. Kinder was a White House press aide to first lady Michelle Obama and served as a public affairs ap- pointee at the Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development.
Trump And Republicans Had A Very Bad 72 Hours In Court Trying To Challenge The Election Results
WASHINGTON — Over the span of just 72 hours, Presi- dent Donald Trump and his supporters have faced a barrage of court losses and setbacks in Pennsylvania, un- derscoring their inability to make a dent in the election re- sults despite the flood of cases they’ve filed since Nov. 3.
The campaign hasn’t fo- cused its legal efforts on one state or one issue, instead pursuing challenges big and small across the country. The bulk of cases that are still ac- tive at this point are in Penn- sylvania. Despite the campaign’s messaging that the sheer quantity of legal challenges speaks to a deeper problem with the legitimacy of the election, judges haven’t handed down decisions to val- idate that rhetoric.
Since Friday, state and fed- eral judges in Pennsylvania have rejected Trump’s chal- lenges to small batches of bal- lots ranging from the hundreds to the low thou-
sands; Biden leads Pennsyl- vania by more than 68,000 votes, according to Decision Desk HQ. Judges have also undermined some of the legal theories that underpin the campaign’s effort to stop Pennsylvania from officially declaring that President- elect Joe Biden won the state.
The morning after Election Day, Trump declared that he would take the election to the Supreme Court, invoking the image of another Bush v. Gore, when the justices halted a ballot recount in Florida that handed the 2000 election to former president George W. Bush. Two weeks later, the legal landscape does not look at all like 2000. Trump would have to find legal paths to flip multiple states that Biden won, and the only case pending before the Supreme Court involves the fate of the 10,000 absentee ballots that arrived in Pennsylvania after Election Day.
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