This is Katie from Portland, Oregon. I just finished riding my off-the-track

thoroughbred horse, named after the 30-second president Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

who's now eating right beside me. This podcast was recorded at 206 pm on Tuesday,

November 24th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but Franklin will

probably still be enjoying his favorite pastime. Food.

That's a good name for a horse, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I wonder if he goes by FDR for

short, you know, he should. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast, I'm Susan Davis,

I cover Congress. I'm Miss McCallid, I cover the Biden transition. And I'm a

Shorasco, I cover the White House. And it wasn't quite a concession, but last night,

President Trump edged a little bit closer to accepting what is obvious, that he lost

the election to Joe Biden. And as always, it came in the form of a tweet. Aisha, can

you walk us through the events that started last night? Yes, so what happened was everyone's

been rating for the General Services Administration to make this assertainment, but basically to make

this determination that Biden was the apparent winner of the election. And that's because that

would kickstart this formal process, transition process, where Biden folks could get into the

federal government start, you know, officially preparing for governing. So the General Services

Administration sent a letter to the Biden transition team basically saying this was happening.

It's a go now. They've made this assertainment, but President Trump seemed to want to get out

ahead of that or to make sure he was putting his stamp of approval on it. And he basically said

that he has told the General Services Administration to do what needs to be done, to start

initial protocols. But then he said, I'm going to keep fighting and I'm going to prevail. So it was

kind of halfway and halfway out if that makes sense. But it does feel like it's very much

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