当选总统乔·拜登正在推进过渡计划，结束了在对唐纳德·特朗普总统的历史性大流行病期间混乱和紧张的竞选活动。在拜登被预测为获胜者两周后，特朗普总统仍然拒绝在选举中让步，并正在采取非同寻常的行动挑战结果。
特朗普没有其他法律手段来掩盖选举失败，他邀请密歇根州的顶级共和党州议员在周五访问白宫，因为他和他的盟友开展压力运动推翻拜登以超过15万张选票获胜的州的选举结果。
尽管特朗普面临重重障碍，他的政府拒绝承认拜登为当选总统，但拜登正稳步前进，准备宣布关键的内阁职位。
尽管特朗普声称存在广泛的选民欺诈，但他和他的竞选团队无法提供支持他们的主张的证据和他们的大部分诉讼已经导致了不利的结果。
拜登预计将任命安东尼·布林肯为国务卿
尽管乔·拜登的转变停滞这位当选总统正在挑选他的内阁。
据知情人士透露，拜登预计将提名安东尼·布林肯(Antony Blinken)为国务卿提名人。安东尼·布林肯是一名长期的外交政策助理，在华盛顿有几十年的经验。公告最早可能在周二发布。
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当选总统乔·拜登在德尔威尔明顿的大通中心向全国发表讲话。，2020年11月7日。
几十年来，从拜登在参议院外交关系委员会的时候到奥巴马白宫和2020年总统竞选，布林肯一直是拜登最亲密的顾问之一。
布林肯是奥巴马总统手下的前副国务卿，他的职业生涯始于克林顿国务院，后来在克林顿总统手下调到白宫和国家安全委员会。
拜登过渡的发言人拒绝置评。
特朗普竞选团队与律师悉尼·鲍威尔保持距离
特朗普竞选团队周日晚上发表声明，与律师西德尼·鲍威尔保持距离，称她不是“特朗普法律团队”的成员，尽管特朗普总统此前宣布她是。
“西德尼·鲍威尔正在独自执业。她不是特朗普法律团队的成员。她也不是总统的私人律师，”特朗普的竞选律师鲁迪·朱利安尼和珍娜·埃利斯在一份声明中说。
此前，鲍威尔在接受《新闻周刊》采访时提出了一系列未经证实的竞选主张最近的新闻发布会代表运动，部分是转发通过共和党官方推特账户。
总统上周宣布鲍威尔与朱利安尼、埃利斯、律师约瑟夫·迪吉诺娃和维多利亚·托恩辛一起成为他的法律团队成员。
莉萨·穆尔科斯基参议员呼吁特朗普开始过渡进程
美国参议员莉萨·穆尔科斯基(右阿拉斯加)发表声明今天敦促特朗普总统尊重2020年选举的结果。
“特朗普总统有机会提起诉讼，但法院迄今认为这些诉讼没有法律依据，”她的声明部分表示。“对州议员施加压力以影响选举结果的运动不仅是前所未有的，而且也不符合我们的民主进程。现在是开始全面和正式过渡进程的时候了。”
穆尔科斯基此前承认乔·拜登为当选总统'
濮培德、雷夫勒支持嘎。用缺席签名匹配重新计票
共和党Sens。大卫·濮培德凯利·雷夫勒星期天说，他们支持总统关于在佐治亚州进行缺席签名比对重新计票的呼吁。
濮培德在一份竞选新闻发布会上说，“任何低于这个数字的都不会是一次完全透明的重新计票。”。"格鲁吉亚人应该在计票过程中享有完全的透明度和一致性."
塔米·沙佩尔/环保局
参议员大卫·濮培德在佐治亚州坎顿的参议院决选竞选集会上发表讲话。，2020年11月20日。
雷夫勒在不久后的一份声明中说，“我完全支持特朗普总统关于在佐治亚州重新计票的请求。我们必须将缺席投票签名与相应的选民登记签名进行匹配和验证，调查所有投票违规行为，并只计算合法投票的票数。”
国务卿布拉德·拉芬伯格办公室的全州投票系统实施经理加布里埃尔·斯特林(Gabriel Sterling)表示，在重新计票期间不会进行签名匹配。他说，这“不是这个过程的一部分，因为法律没有考虑到这一点”，他们没有收到证据表明签名匹配没有按照州法律正确进行。
斯特林还表示，允许政党指定观察员观察缺席者签名匹配过程，但除了一个县的一个例子之外，两党都没有这样做。
格鲁吉亚证明其选举结果星期五。
濮培德和雷夫勒面对的是民主党乔恩·奥索夫和佐治亚州参议员拉斐尔·沃诺克的决选。
Trump-Biden transition live updates: Trump campaign distances itself from attorney Sidney Powell
President-elect Joe Bidenis moving forward with transition plans, capping a tumultuous and tension-filled campaign during a historic pandemic against President Donald Trump, who still refuses to concede the election two weeks after Biden was projected as the winner and is taking extraordinary moves to challenge the results.
Running out of legal alternatives to override the election loss, Trump invited Michigan's top Republican state lawmakers to visit the White House on Friday, as he and alliespursue a pressure campaignto overturn results in a state Biden won by more than 150,000 votes.
Despite Trump's roadblocks and his administration refusing to recognize Biden as the president-elect, Biden is forging ahead as he prepares to announce key Cabinet positions.
Though Trump has alleged widespread voter fraud, he and his campaignhaven't been able to providethe evidence to substantiate their claims and the majority of their lawsuits have already resulted in unfavorable outcomes.
Biden expected to tap Antony Blinken for secretary of state
Despite Joe Biden's transition beingstalled, the president-elect is moving forward with selecting his cabinet.
According to sources familiar with the decision, Biden is expected to name Antony Blinken, a longtime foreign policy aide with decades of experience in Washington, as his nominee for secretary of state. The announcement could come as soon as Tuesday.
Blinken has been one of Biden's closest advisers for decades, from Biden's time on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the Obama White House and the 2020 presidential campaign.
A former deputy secretary of state under President Obama, Blinken began his career in the Clinton State Department and later moved to the White House and National Security Council under President Clinton.
A spokesman for Biden's transition declined to comment.
Trump campaign distances itself from attorney Sidney Powell
The Trump campaign released a statement Sunday night distancing itself from attorney Sidney Powell, saying she's not a member of the "Trump Legal Team," despite President Trump previously announcing that she was.
"Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity," Trump campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in a statement.
The statement comes after Powell advanced a series of unproven election claims in an interview on Newsmax and at arecent press conferenceon behalf of the campaign, portions of which wereretweetedby the official GOP Twitter account.
The president last week announced Powell as a member of his legal team along with Giuliani, Ellis, and attorneys Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski calls on Trump to begin the transition process
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)released a statementtoday urging President Trump to respect the outcome of the 2020 election.
"President Trump has had the opportunity to litigate his claims, and the courts have thus far found them without merit," her statement said in part. "A pressure campaign on state legislators to influence the electoral outcome is not only unprecedented but inconsistent with our democratic process. It is time to begin the full and formal transition process."
Murkowski has previously acknowledged Joe Biden as the president-elect.
Perdue, Loeffler support Ga. recount with absentee signature matching
Republican Sens.David Perdueand Kelly Loeffler said Sunday that they back the president's calls for a recount involving absentee signature matching in Georgia.
"Anything less than that will not be a full and transparent recount," Perdue said in a campaign press release."Georgians deserve full transparency and uniformity in the counting process."
Loeffler, in a statement a short time later said, "I fully support President Trump’s request for a recount in Georgia. We must match and verify absentee ballot signatures to their corresponding voter registration signatures, investigate all voting irregularities, and count only the votes that were legally cast.”
Signature matching will not take place during the recount, according to Gabriel Sterling, the statewide voting system implementation manager in Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office. He said it's "not part of this process because it's not contemplated in the law" and thatthey've received no evidence that signature matching was not done properly in accordance with state law.
Sterling also said that parties were allowed to designate observers to watch the absentee signature matching process take place, butneither party did this except for just one instance in one county.
Georgia certified itselection resultson Friday.
Perdue and Loeffler are facing DemocratsJon Ossoffand the Rev. Raphael Warnock in Georgia runoff elections for the U.S. Senate.
