Biden team seeks Covid backchannels as transition blocked; New daily cases skyrocket to 153K; Hospitalizations hit record 67K; White House: Two Covid vaccines may be authorized by end of year; Trump speaks for first time since election loss to Biden;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Biden to take "deliberative" approach to filling cabinet; SF halts all indoor dining, NY closes bars & restaurants at 10pm in effort to curb spread; Influential model predicts 439K deaths in U.S. by March 1; Two Covid vaccines, two therapeutics may be granted emergency use authorization before end of this year; Study: New mutant Covid strain could spread more easily; Trump touts vaccine & economy; says no more lockdowns; 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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0:00.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:04.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with breaking news.
0:08.0	CNN has now projected that President-elect Joe Biden will win the state of Georgia. This comes after we projected he won Arizona
0:15.7	last night, flipping those traditionally red states to blue for the first time since the 1990
0:21.3	CNN also projecting that outgoing President Trump will win the state of North Carolina,
0:26.2	which means in addition to President-elect Biden currently up in the popular vote, 77.9 million votes or 50.8% to outgoing President Trump's 72.7
0:37.8	million or 47.4%
0:39.8	Biden has 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232.
0:45.8	That's a score that Trump called a landslide
0:49.7	when he was on the right end of it.
0:51.6	Today, President-elect Biden is meeting with his
0:53.6	transition advisors and preparing to take office on January 20th. The Biden Harris
0:57.9	transition team is forced to reach out on their own to governors and health experts
1:01.6	in the private sector to prepare since the
1:03.9	Trump administration is still refusing to begin the transition process.
1:07.9	Trump is set to speak any minute from the Rose Garden. These will be the President's first public remarks since
1:15.5	President-elect Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election.
1:19.9	Almost a full week ago, Trump has so far refused to acknowledge his electoral loss in any way
1:26.5	at all, though the writing has been on the wall for quite some time now.
1:31.2	More news of finality just in recent hours with Pennsylvania
1:34.8	announcing Biden's margin of victory is way too big to trigger an automatic
1:38.8	recount. A law firm representing the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania has withdrawn representation.
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