Biden Prepares for Presidency While Trump Denies Loss

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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President-elect Joe Biden is preparing to assume his role as the new commander in chief. The current President, Donald Trump, however, appears to still be in denial refusing to concede. Biden will take the Oath of Office in the inauguration in 73 days. To win the presidency, the nominee needs at least 270 votes. Currently, the president-elect is projected to win at least 279 votes and that number could rise. Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina remain too close to call. Former President George W. Bush has congratulated Biden. On Sunday, Bush released a statement saying in part that he extended his congratulations and thanked him for his patriotic message from Saturday night. Bush also called Kamala Harris to congratulate her on her historic election to the vice presidency. The First Lady is speaking out about the election. Melania Trump tweeted in part, "every legal vote should be counted." Sources tell CNN, the First Lady, and several others in Trump's inner circle are urging him to concede and accept the loss. Joe Biden is set to announce his coronavirus task force on Monday. More than 237,400 people have died from Covid-19 in the United States. At least nine million total cases of coronavirus have been reported in the country. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.1	It has now been one day since CNN projected that Joe Biden was elected the
1:21.8	46th President of the United States.
1:24.4	But while President-elect Biden is preparing to assume the office of the presidency,
1:28.6	the current occupant of the White House is still in a state of denial.
1:32.0	Threatening lawsuits that nearly every legal expert will tell you are destined to fail.
1:37.0	The inauguration is now 73 days away.
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