Most of the country expects that Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president on January 20 of next year. But President Trump has not yet conceded the race and lawsuits are either pending or are about to be filed in multiple states, all of them based on the premise that there was significant ballot and voting fraud that changed the outcome of the election.
But with each passing day, reversing that outcome becomes increasingly difficult and increasingly unlikely, as Fox News’s Gurnal Scott reports:
President Trump and his legal team have not abandoned their court challenges but certifications in states that President-elect Joe Biden won make a reversal difficult. Results were made official in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada. NEVADA ELECTION OFFICIAL: ‘So with that, the 2020 vote canvas for the Nevada general election is completed. Thank you very much to everyone.’ This as the Biden administration assembles its foreign policy team. But even as the General Services Administration signs off on transition, the president tweeted Tuesday, ‘The GSA does not determine who is the next president.’”
Joe Biden is nevertheless acting as if he is to be the next president. He has spent much of this week announcing his picks for cabinet and other key administration posts. Griff Jenkins tells us more in this report:
President-elect Joe Biden not wasting time in Wilmington introducing his picks for top national security and foreign policy picks yesterday while declaring that America is back, signaling a shift away from President Trump’s America first. Now, Biden’s picks include Tony Blinken for Secretary of State and John Kerry to lead the White House on climate change. Senator Marco Rubio pushing back tweeting, ‘Biden’s cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools, have strong resumés, attend all the right conferences and will be polite and orderly caretakers of America’s decline. I support American greatness and I have no interest in returning to the “normal” that left us dependent on China.’”
Assuming that Joe Biden does take the oath on January 20, his administration will have a decidedly different policy approach from that of President Trump. Based on what we are seeing and hearing from the Biden transition team, climate change and immigration will be two areas of policy that will be sharply different from what we have seen during the Trump administration. Fox News’s Lauren Blanchard tells us more:
President-elect Joe Biden gave us a look at what his first 100 days will look like. Biden said he will first roll back some Trump era executive orders, especially those that deal with climate issues. He also said he’ll send the Senate an immigration bill that will pave the way for citizenship for some 11 million undocumented immigrants.”
Assuming that Republicans retain control of the Senate following the two runoff elections in Georgia that are set for January 5, at least the first two years of a Biden administration will likely be marked by legislative deadlock. We can therefore expect a blizzard of executive orders, all aimed and undoing the Trump presidency.