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    US Elections Highlights: White House planning for second Trump term despite defeat, say official

    14 Nov, 2020 | 08:48:35 PM IST
    US Elections Highlights: White House planning for second Trump term despite defeat, say official
    President-elect Biden solidified his election victory after winning the state of Georgia as President Donald Trump said “time will tell” if another administration takes office soon.
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    08:44:57 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Trump renews 'rigged election' claim

    08:43:35 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Trump tweets again

    07:50:36 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Biden likely to break barriers, pick woman to lead Pentagon

    07:03:57 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    GOP leaders in 4 states quash dubious Trump bid on electors

    07:00:35 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    White House planning for second Trump term despite defeat, say official

    05:35:43 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Republican leaders in four critical states won by Biden say they won't participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state's electors to vote for Trump

    05:02:20 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Trump skips Southeast Asia summit for third year in a row

    04:30:44 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Former President Barack Obama directly confronts the racist politics of President Donald Trump in his upcoming memoir, bluntly suggesting how he believes his historic 2008 election opened a wave of divisive turmoil that fueled Republicans' obstructionism.

    04:21:58 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    US President Donald Trump is mounting an unprecedented, and thus far unsuccessful, challenge to last week's presidential election, but that hasn't shaken Wall Street's forward momentum.

    03:32:01 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faces an elephant in the room as he heads on a seven-nation trip to US allies -- they have congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on his victory and he most certainly has not.

    03:00:51 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Donald Trump says "time will tell" if he remains president, in a momentary slip of his unprecedented refusal to concede his election defeat and help Democrat Joe Biden prepare to take power.

    02:28:52 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Biden's victory in Georgia added 16 electoral votes to his tally, bringing him to 306 -- matching President Trump's total against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

    01:55:41 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    The pro-Trump demonstrations in Washington and other cities are scheduled to feature a mix of the president’s backers, far-right personalities and members of the Oath Keepers militia and Proud Boys in a public display of support for his effort to stay in power.

    01:05:39 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging pandemic.

    12:51:16 PM IST, 14 November 2020

    Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won't participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state's electors to vote for President Donald Trump.

    11:44:48 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    President Trump’s supporters will take to the streets to back his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud as he pushes ahead with a flurry of longshot legal challenges to overturn President-elect Biden’s victory.

    10:57:14 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    Gliding over significant challenges still to come, President Donald Trump offered a rosy update on the race for a vaccine for the resurgent coronavirus as he delivered his first public remarks since his defeat by President-elect Joe Biden.

    10:28:42 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    President Trump suffered multiple legal setbacks in three key swing states, choking many of his last-ditch efforts to use the courts to delay or block President-elect Biden’s victory.

    10:21:56 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    Twitter flagged at least 50 tweets and retweets issued by President Trump to his nearly 89 million followers from October 27 to November 11.

    09:51:44 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    An estimated 300,000 tweets related to the 2020 US Presidential elections were flagged for misleading content, according to an update issued by Twitter this week.

    09:00:16 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    Counting nears end as the two final states -- Georgia and North Carolina -- get called, leaving Biden at 306 electoral votes, and Trump 232.

    08:48:05 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    States where Donald Trump has won the electoral votes

    • Montana
    • Idaho
    • Utah
    • Wyoming
    • North Dakota
    • South Dakota
    • Nebraska
    • Kansas
    • Oklahoma
    • Texas
    • Iowa
    • Missouri
    • Arkansas
    • Louisiana
    • Indiana
    • Ohio
    • West Virginia
    • Kentucky
    • Tennessee
    • North Carolina
    • South Carolina
    • Mississippi
    • Alabama
    • Florida
    • Alaska
    08:46:19 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    States where Joe Biden has won the electoral votes

    • Washington
    • Oregon
    • California
    • Nevada
    • Arizona
    • Colorado
    • New Mexico
    • Minnesota
    • Wisconsin
    • Illinois
    • Michigan
    • Georgia
    • Maine
    • Vermont
    • New Hampshire
    • Massachusetts
    • Rhode Island
    • Connecticut
    • New Jersey
    • Delaware
    • Maryland
    • District of Columbia
    • New York
    • Pennsylvania
    • Virginia
    • Hawaii
    08:35:08 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    Edison Research projected that North Carolina, the only other battleground state with an outstanding vote count, would go to Trump, finalizing the electoral vote tally at 306 for Biden to 232 for Trump.

    08:22:19 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    India has started digging up potential local roots for US President-elect Joe Biden. The next leader of the United States has speculated that he might have had relatives in colonial India.

    08:17:39 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    Former White House chief of staff John Kelly issued a statement lambasting President Trump for not helping with the transition to a Biden administration.

    08:02:44 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    Kamala Harris on healthcare

    07:26:19 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    President-elect Biden’s top coronavirus adviser said there were no plans for a wholesale nationwide lockdown to curb the surging coronavirus as three West Coast states jointly called for a halt in non-essential travel.

    07:01:48 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    Biden pledges to make controlling the coronavirus a top priority and is likely to push for mask wearing mandates and more fiscal stimulus to keep businesses and workers afloat.

    06:46:10 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    Far-right groups and other backers of President Trump plan to rally in Washington in a public show of support for his unsubstantiated claim of widespread voting fraud in the US elections.

    06:45:31 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    Covid response under President-elect Joe Biden

    06:44:39 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    President-elect Biden will be briefed by national security experts next week, Biden's transition official Jen Psaki said amid concerns that being out of the loop due to delays to the transition could be a national security risk.

    06:43:53 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    President Trump's claim to fraud

    06:43:03 AM IST, 14 November 2020

    President-elect Biden solidified his election victory after winning the state of Georgia as President Trump said “time will tell” if another administration takes office soon, the closest he has come to acknowledging that Biden could succeed him.

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